A diversity educator argues that while identity traits like religion and skin color shape our experiences, we can choose to seek out people from different backgrounds. Intentional outreach across social circles has been a game changer for building meaningful connections.
I just want to say that our religion, the color of our skin, our gender— these are something that for the most part we can't control. So I think, and this is a personal opinion, I feel that I want to meet people who don't look like me, who don't, uh, have the same social circle, who have different education, educational backgrounds. So I just wanted to say that even though we can't control it, we can feel good about ourselves and we can project that, or we can go up to someone and, and just start speaking to them so that we actually make other people feel good. I promise you, that person will remember you forever. I know I've had it. I teach it. I've had people do this and it just works like a charm. So I didn't want to leave that out because, you know, I teach diversity. I've got friends of every persuasion and it has just been a game changer for me.
