Does Diversity Affect Our Behaviors?

 Dear readers,

How are you? I am good. As you know that we are in quarantine because of the COVID-19 pandemic. I know that this situation is not easy for us but please do not worry because I am here as your great blogger :). Today, I want to talk about diversity and its effects on our behaviors. I chose this topic because I read a short story based on diversity in public. I was impressed by it and I started to think about diversity in public. With a big surprise, the next day we talked about the effects of our diversity on the public and our behaviors in the English lesson. There was a picture about it and a majority of my friends said that diversity connected us and removed bias. Maybe these things are true but I do not think that diversity is such an optimistic thing as they described.

Firstly, I think that I should describe the meaning of “diversity”. According to Cambridge Dictionary, diversity means that a situation in which many different types of things or people are included in something. Diversity can help to remove our bias and to connect us. However, diversity has bad effects on public and human behaviors too. For example, diversity increases because of immigration or migration, some people of the community who native to this place, can do or think bad things (such as racism) to migrants. Because of these actions or thoughts, migrants feel excluded and their behaviors start to change. They will start to fight for their rights. As a reaction, some natives do worse things than actions which they did before. This cycle continues and at the end of the cycle, there may dead innocent people. Basically, if native people do not act hospitable, there can be bad events.

From an economical perspective, some businesses or factory owners engage new workers who are in the minority of society, because these people want to work with lower wages because they are poor and live in poor neighborhoods. Also, diversity can cause discrimination of wages. Business or factory owners may want to give less wage because of their gender, race, or color. These bad actions which are caused by diversity, minorities – probably they are migrant- change their peaceful and happy behaviors to aggressive and angry –because of discrimination- behaviors. They can start a riot or organized as a group. They can give damage the majority’s workplaces or governmental buildings. I know that these are extreme examples but they have the possibility to become real. And no one can blame for these actions because the majority that has diversity, did not accept them. 

However, their advantages and good behaviors are gained by diversity. As the simplest example, I can say that people can try new foods of different cultures. People’s perspectives can change with learning new cultures. They can learn new languages from their neighbors. Also, diversity teaches us how we can communicate with other people who have different cultures. These good effects change us into open-minded people. Our thoughts change in a good way and this change shows itself in our behaviors. People behave hospitably and help them. Briefly, happiness and peace in society may increase with these behaviors. 

In this text, I wanted to show the effects of diversity on behaviors. There are some advantages and disadvantages of diversity and both of them affect human behaviors. If society learns to accept diversities and change their behaviors, there will no problem. However, if they do not do these things, there will be chaos. So the main point is behaviors that are affected by diversity, are so important to live happy and peaceful.

I hope that you like this post. Please write your ideas and thoughts about this topic in the comment. Goodbye!

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