Wednesday, February 22, 2012

THE FINAL QUESTION

Yes, there are four total, but I modified an old college essay answer for one, so I didn't have to brainstorm on here.
It's time for the community/family/things about them that were important to my personal development! Yaaaaayyyy!
Can I real quick just point out bullshit this question is? Like, my family and my community have affected me in pretty much every single possible way you could think of. Nearly everything about my family has been important to my personal development, so yeah. Broadest question ever.

I can't decide if I want to talk about diversity or not. Like, it's sort of easy: my mom is Japanese, my grandmother is very obviously a first generation immigrant who still has difficulty speaking in English about 80% of the time; I went to an elementary school that was very diverse, had a strong focus on diversity, both racially (especially with regards to the whole MLK thing) and in other ways, namely that it was the designated school for disabled students, so we had a whole bunch of people in our classes with developmental/mental/physical disabilities. Moving to Minnesota, there's the whole Hmong/Somali aspect - so there's religion and smaller minorities.
At the same time, I feel like it's a little disingenuous. Like, in some ways my surroundings have been very diverse, but in many ways, they also haven't been. I'm not close friends with anything who isn't middle class and raised in America. Most of my classes don't have that many people who aren't white. Also, I've tried to write that response multiple times, and I just don't know where to start.

Unfortunately, I also can't come up with any other answers either. I could talk about how weird my family is, but that's hard to explain.
So um yeah, I just don't know what to do. That's pretty much all this post is about. I'll probably end up writing about diversity, but ugh. It's just so awkward.

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