Narrative on social diversity and multiculturalism

To me, social diversity are certain factors within a society that help define it, some of theses factors include race, culture, religion, and age. Moreover, multiculturalism can be defined as many different sub cultures and cultures present in one centralized location. Social diversity has a large importance in my life because  being that I go to a large university I am able to interact with many different groups of  diverse people each with different factors that define them. The issues that surround diversity will play an important role in my  criminal justice career after college because in criminal justice work places there is a lot of interactions within different types of social diversities. Moreover I find it important to me now to understand different diversity issues in my surrounding society to help better myself for the future.

The place that was  most influential in help shaping my idea of social diversity and multiculturalism was my university, Illinois State. To be honest, if it wasn't for the knowledge I obtained at college I really wouldn't know how to define social diversity or multiculturalism or able to understand there magnitude. The knowledge that I obtained on areas that pertained to social diversity and multiculturalism helped my understand there true meanings and how much both were deep rooted into each society. During my spring break of my freshman year of college I had a very different social experience while volunteering in Mississippi. A group of my friends and I were volunteering for habitat for humanity  in a small town that was affected by hurricane Katrina, while  there we witnessed many different diverse people and places. The thing that caught my eye the most was the towns people close knit community ties even after most of them have been devastated by the hurricane, this caught my eye because the community had many diverse qualities which ranged from age, culture and the biggest one  race. My experiences down there helped show me that in some situations when a community over looks diversity between races a lot of good for that community can be accomplished.   

The social justice issue that I am interested investigating this semester is informing others of the dangerous side effects of cigarette smoking. I believe this is an important topic because a large number of college students as well adults per take in smoking and my goal was to educate them before it becomes to late. This issue relates to my criminal justice major because as a police officer I will have to educate children and young adults about the  dangers of doing drugs and how it harms there bodies. Hopefully by understanding this social justice issue now I will be more prepared for the future.