Ted Talk Over Diversity Analysis

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When watching the Ted Talk over diversity I was started at the fact that diversity came in so many different ways. The fact that diversity in this issue was not over race or ethnicity but over the different challenges people face on a daily basis is inspiring to me. People often allow diversity to be tied under one issue and left there, but the fact of the matter itself is that the concept of diversity is extremely diverse in its own way. It can touch on race, bullying, everyday challenges and a wide variety of other issues as well. My attention was truly caught in this video due to the relation I saw in between each type of diversity and the issues of my own life.
Throughout all of my life I have been the “black sheep” of my family. Growing up in a rodeo oriented family, it was not easy when I decided that showing livestock was the route I wanted to take instead of rodeo. You see diversity in my family comes in a different form. My
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If a person were to meet me now, I truly believe they would be unaware of how much I struggled in school with bullying. Growing up I was pushed around for numerous reasons. I was not like other people in my school. For example, the majority of guys in my class were of poor morals and made bad decisions that I did not want to be a part of. So from the time I was in middle school until this past year I was pushed around for my best friends being girls. There were many things spread around the hallways of Dibble High School about my life and who people thought I was. This drove me to hating school. I hated being in that school due to being uncomfortable in my own skin. I felt unwanted even with my best friends around and lived in constant fear of being ridiculed by others. Being bullied was not something that I flashed for the world to see, but not something that I was completely ashamed of