Saturday, October 23, 2010

Meaning of Diversity

From my understanding there are about three different definitions for the word diverse. The first one is the state or fact of being diverse; difference; unlikeness. The second one is variety or mutiformity. The last and third one is a point of difference. I saw a pattern involving the base word diverse. It just so happens that the word diverse means of a different kind, form, character, etc. and it also means of various kinds or forms. We encounter diversity in our lives plenty of times a day. One example, and the most commonly thought of, would be race. One of the first things that pops into my head when I hear the word diversity is definitely race or color. One thinks of Hispanics or Latinos, African Americans, Caucasians, Europeans, etc. However,diversity is not only limited to race or color. Diversity also covers a variety of other areas. Diversity can also be used to describe musical genres or even instruments. There is a wide range   of music and music classifications that would make diversity appropriate for describing music. There is rock music, classical music, pop music, rap music, techno music and much more. The number of instruments vary way to much for me to even count. You could also use diversity to describe a issues. What I mean by this is that you could classify third world country issues or perhaps local community issues as diverse. There are many different issues that countries and communities deal with or discuss daily. Diversity is all around us. 

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