Diversity

 This week's class we talked about diversity and how it can affect others and their families. My professor did a little experiment in front of the class for us. He had people come up and act like a family that lived in Mexico. So some people were a mom and dad, 2 kids, grandma, uncle, aunt and 2 cousins. The two families have been super close their whole life especially the kids, they hangout almost everyday since they are super close in age.The mom and dad decided they wanted their family to emigrate over to America for their kids so they can get a better education, have a better education and they just want what's best for their kids. Usually when a family emigrates to America or maybe even a different country the dad will go first and see if he can find a place to stay and work hard to earn money so his family can get through and help support them. And when each person goes over to America they pay someone called a coyote to help get them to the USA and it usually costs about $4,000- 12,000 a person! Usually it takes the dad 6 months to 3 years to get his family to America. In our class presentation we did 3 years. By the time his family got to the United states his family changed. They weren’t close to their dad at all and they felt weird to be around each other because they have spent three years apart from each other. The kids were definitely more excited to see their dad than the mom to see her husband. Another conflict is they have spent time away from each other and the mom has been raising her kids by herself and the dad hasn’t done much so the wife has definitely been making decisions on her own so now they have to work together to figure out how to work together and raise their kids. The kids aren’t very excited to go to America because now that they are older they left their family, family, and life behind in Mexico. Now they are in America where they don’t know any English and not really any friends. They are having a hard time adjusting. Usually when you move somewhere that you are unfriendly with you find people or things that fit in your culture. The kids are more likely to become friends with people who speak Spanish and have things in common with their culture. There is a lot this family has to work with and work together and get back into the rhythm of having all of them together. 

If this was me in the same situation I don’t know how I would feel about this. I would definitely not want to go because I would be leaving my family and friends behind in a whole different country. I would be scared and would have do idea what to do because first off I probably wouldn’t know the language and it would be really hard to fit in. One of my really good friends had the opportunity to move to America legally so it's a little different but he came from two different Spanish speaking countries and he said it was definitely hard to adjust but he has worked really hard and now has tons of friends and the language is really good. 

I really like learning about different cultures. I feel that everyone is human and everyone should be treated the same. Just because they might look or sound different doesn’t mean we should treat them differently. We are all different in our own ways.