Diversity

... Jessica Oliver Diversity St. Joseph, Missouri is an overgrown, close-minded town filled with just the sort of people that you would expect to be prejudice. That said, I grew up there and never understood prejudice until I moved away-to Columbia, an extremely diverse town. Why is that? It's simply because our prejudices come from the society we grow up in. Perhaps in St. Joseph minorities are so readily accepted simply because there are so few of them. Now wait, this sounds contradictory of what media tells us doesn't it? The idea that fewer minorities make them more accepted? Could the media actually be wrong in how they portray the roots of discrimination? I think so. I'm a strong believer that you are simply a product of the culture that you've come to know. I myself will admit that I'm prejudice against people that act certain ways, but it has nothing to do

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