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DIVERSITY
As someone born to an Arab Saudi father and an African Sudanese mother from the Darfur region, my life has always been heavily influenced by major issues of diversity. Arabs do not respect Africans; they denigrate them and treat them like second-class citizens. Frankly, I do not have any early memories that do not include encounters with racism, classicism and the tremendous social differences associated with relative poverty and wealth. My father, who was a wealthy man, divorced my mother when I was three, forcing her to leave home to train as midwife to support her four young children. During that time, I was cared for by various different relatives until the age of seven but it was a difficult experience for me because their attention was less than what I had received from my mother. It taught me that I needed to learn how to fend...
I remember running as though for my very life and hiding in a cattle shed for more than 24 hours. Unfortunately, I was eventually located and forced to undergo the unspeakable trauma that I can never forget. Afterwards, I was never able to trust my mother entirely and I became somewhat rebellious. I became determined to become educated as a means of overcoming the oppression of my life in Sudan and worked hard enough in school to achieve the highest score in the country on the university entrance exam. Eventually, I received a BA in Law and B.sc. In Economics.
In Sudan, I was beaten and…
In Sudan, I was beaten and arrested more times than I can count by the police and security forces for organizing and participating in nonviolent demonstrations against the dictatorial regime.
When the American Embassy in Sudan turned down my application to pursue my postgraduate studies in the U.S. In 1989, the British Embassy granted me a visa. I enrolled in Manchester University in the Master of Economics program, eventually spending 12 years in the U.K. For a girl who had been raised in an oppressive dictatorial society, it was an incredible experience just to be able to make autonomous decisions without continual fear of punishment and official condemnation. In my opinion, it is difficult to appreciate what freedom means when one has never been deprived of it. In Manchester, I worked part time while attending the university and I roomed with a lesbian couple. Obviously, that alone was an incredible experience a young Muslim girl raised with the fear of God's punishment and initially I feared God's wrath just for living with my roommates.
In 2001, I finally made it to the United States. In the meantime, I had been married, become the mother of two boys, divorced my husband, and remarried. Unfortunately, almost immediately after settling in the country, my new husband became manipulative and abusive. When I threatened to call the police, he locked my boys and me out of his apartment and refused to give us our passports or any of our belongings. With no knowledge of my rights in the country, I became homeless with my two boys less than 4 months into my life in the U.S. We ended up in a domestic violence/homeless shelter. with the boys with no document or money, but also with no body
Arab Culture Understanding the Arab mind and cultural mentality is a contentious issue and one that has been debated from a number of points-of-view. Many modern scholars and researchers claim that much of the analysis of Arab culture is biased towards a Eurocentric and Western perspective. Critics claim that generalized statements of the constitution and characteristics of the Arab mind are often denigrating and racist in their views of the differences
Managing Diversity Diversity is a fact of American and International business and is a broader, more complex issue than one might initially believe. A universally vital element of global commerce, Diversity has spawned an abundance of theorists, journals and specialists, some of whom are encountered in this composition. Addressing the remarkable breadth and complexity of Diversity, this essay reviews: the nature of Diversity; legally protected classes within the United States; aspects
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person within the Christian worldview. Specifically it will discuss technology, the environment, and the media as it relates to my personal Christian worldview. As noted in this course, understanding a worldview can help a person understand other people and all their roles in today's society. Today's culture is broad, and influenced by a variety of sources, from scientific to religious, and they combine to create a contemporary Christian worldview
Stresses associated with migration itself, discrimination against racial minorities in this country, poverty, unemployment, and crowded living conditions heighten the chance that a husband will become abusive" (p. 1402). From the Vietnamese-American perspective, these issues are even more pronounced and they are discussed further below. a. Male dominance. One of the most powerful forces affecting Vietnamese families at home and abroad today is Confucian ideology, an ideology that is predicated