Davis. Diversity. Why Davis? Why Diversity? HOW IS DIVERSITY?

ASA 2 Week#1 reading response UC Davis Facts
Jesse Lee Section Section 1

There are many things to discuss simply from looking from the data and the pie charts, but the first thing I have to discuss is the last part of this post title, How is Diversity? I have two reasons why I structured that part of the title so awkwardly. The first reason is because it is the part of the title that I believe should be noticed the most. The second reason is that I felt that the question what is diversity isn't enough, and it is what is generally asked in my opinion. I wanted to dig deeper and that is when I thought about changing the what, in what is diversity to how? Now the question of how brings up an important new way of thinking.  The how can ask many things, much more than I can think of right now, but for me, I ask the how does diversity work? I think this part is very important, how is diversity enacted? How is it not? Now diversity is a very big subject, and it is important to understand that you have to ask specific questions and critically analyze specific parts of it at a time. How has Diversity evolve? I ask this while analyzing the data because things change over time. There is also the question how is diversity different in different areas? I bring up this question because I remember during my high school years in which I visited at least nine different colleges in California which claimed that they had a diverse student background.  I want to discuss more on my question of how is diversity enacted? At this moment this is the question that I am analyzing the most on, especially in regards to the campus of UC Davis. While I walk around campus, or in my own living room in my apartment in west Davis I wonder how do students behave in the air of diversity. I want to briefly discuss my experience living with my housemates. I am a transfer student from Sacramento and I am currently living with five other transfer students. Our household is quite diverse, with two of the guys being caucasian, two more being Chinese and one being korean and including myself as a Hmong student. Not only do we have different ethnicities, we also have different backgrounds in where we grew up and how we were raised. This was quite an interesting experience because at times we do embrace the differences of our backgrounds with each by sharing our experiences with each other. Yet when I think about it, I feel that we turn a blind eye to our differences, and that the key idea of how we enact diversity is not our differences that bring us together but our similarities. But this is bad, because what happens to our differences? Do we just sweep it under the rug? These are some of the things to think about, especially considering the diversity in Davis. There is also more to say about this topic.

My question is: How is Diversity? In your perspective.

http://www.upworthy.com/i-never-thought-id-want-to-high-five-a-teacher-for-yelling-at-a-student-but-i-was-wrong
This video taught me something important when looking at diversity. I encourage all to watch it.