cultural diversity

I have found myself talking differently to people of different culture because in my town we don't see much difference with people. My town is all Caucasian people and a few African Americans but not many. I took a class while getting my Bachelor degree and a lot of the people in my class were of the Muslim culture and wore gowns and masks so you could only see their eyes. Me and the other Caucasian girls all judged them because they were different. I did eventually have to be in a group with them and found out we had a lot in common and we got along very well. It's sad that in this day and age, that if you look different you automatically get judged. The way I communicated differently was I tried using as small of words as I could just in case they didn't understand me. I took that assumption that they couldn't speak fluent English, and I was wrong. They were very intelligent. I now make sure to not judge a book by its cover, because it really could have made me not make friends in the class and I wouldn't have learned about their culture, which I found very interesting.