Diversity

Diversity,


One of my personal experiences with diversity is simply playing football (soccer). Yes, it probably sounds like my default answer to go to. I attend a drop-in style of game where everyone is welcome to play. I mean everyone from any race…Mexican, German, Spanish, East Indian, Korean, Japanese, etc. When playing and conversing with a number of different nationalities, you soon realize that we all are all the same… human.


Diversity, I believe, should and always be celebrated on a football pitch or in a classroom. This is how I see it; by recognizing people’s similarities and differences as not weaknesses but strengths, as we are here for each other. We are here to grow, learn, and live among one another. Instead of looking at face value, meaning the colour of your skin, we should look deeper and soon we will realize that we are all the same.  We are all humans with passions, fears, beliefs, likes, dislikes, strengths, and weaknesses. As the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr once said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” 

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