Prior to coming to the University of South Carolina I defined diversity as the mixture of various ethnicities and other groups such as like skater guys, jocks, those types of stereotypes. Since my arrival here my viewpoint has remained the same. I would still use the definition of diversity that I thought of before I came to the University of South Carolina. I certainly have experienced diversity at my work site. For one thing, my mentee and I do not share the same race. He’s an African American, which is obviously different than me, Caucasian. Hand Middle School has a diverse student body with several different races and socioeconomic groups. My mentee uses some terminology that’s not very appropriate in a middle school setting, but I think it is the product of his upbringing. It gets a little annoying having to police him for an hour but that’s just what I have to do.
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