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I think the things that companies are doing as far as diversity goes. I think it is important because it can be tough to work somewhere where you are treated differently due to something like that. I am no expert on the subject but it really makes a difference in the environment at work if it is made out in the open that all cultures, ages, sex, sexual perferences, etc, are tolerated and that any bad treatment due to one of these issues will not be allowed. It makes people feel safe. I think that usually the companies that have really great polices set in place to protect their employees right to be different are usually the really great places to work anyway. They care enough to put these stipulations in place, therefore they probably do many other great things for their employees as well. And if they do these things for their employees, think of what they probably do for the consumers that buy thier products. It is a sort of ripple effect that gains people's trust.

Diversity

I have been fortunate that I have not encountered that many "bad" situations where people have treated me a certain way based on my ethnicity or color. I have also been fortuante enough also to never really been around people who treated other people bad for those reasons as well. I went to a high school where there was a lot of diversity in the students, though there were not many African Americans. But there were some and there were no issues. In fact, there were groups, but they were made up of people that enjoyed being around each other and it did not matter what color you were or where your ancestors came from. So in that way, I consider myself lucky, but also sheltered. Never really seeing people with these type of prejudices has made it hard for me to know that it exists, though I know it does. So in class, I wrote about the one time I felt there were issues with certain groups, and the group was the younger employees. Everyday I went to work, I felt that there was something against the yournger emploees. THey were treated differently, as if it never matted what they thought and if there were issues over something, the way younger employees were repremanded was different that the way older ones were. At that moment I began to realize that sometimes people are not treated fairly for the silliest reasons. I was treated like I had no experiance with life when I worked there, although no one even knew before my employment there. I think these sort of things go on all over the place, even though sometimes it seems like we as a society are passed it.