| Diversity, multi-cultural & global awareness is | | | | international community's trust at large. The latter |
| a huge issue on college & university | | | | will not be easy as America has grossly violated |
| campuses. International students are a large | | | | and alienated the Arab and Muslim world. |
| portion of today's college campus student body. | | | | Nevertheless Arab, Muslim, and Asian students |
| Therefore global & multi-cultural awareness | | | | continue to come to America to study at our |
| should be embraced, but most American students | | | | colleges and universities. Here then is our |
| have never traveled abroad and don't understand | | | | opportunity to begin to build bridges, create |
| other cultures or ethnicities. | | | | multi-cultural and global awareness, and embrace |
| As a world traveling humanitarian worker, minister | | | | diversity on campus. |
| and professional speaker I serendipitously | | | | I believe the colleges, universities, and academic |
| stumbled upon the need of multi-cultural and global | | | | institutions have embraced Muslims and Arabs and |
| awareness on college campuses while participating | | | | will continue to do so. The challenge remains |
| in a volunteer international language conversation | | | | educating (and re-educating) Americans who have |
| hour for foreign students desirous of learning | | | | no travel experience about other ethnicities and |
| English. | | | | nationalities before stereotypes, misnomers, |
| It was a small way of giving back, not to mention | | | | erroneous presumptions, flawed predispositions, |
| after traveling to over 50 countries and 6 | | | | rude prejudices, and belittling biases arise on |
| continents myself I was a bit bored with speaking | | | | campus to create conflict. |
| only to Americans. Every time I came home | | | | It is far better early on to invest in establishing a |
| from overseas, I went through reverse culture | | | | multi-cultural and globally aware student body that |
| shock and felt homesick. Yet I was home. I | | | | embraces every ethnicity within the academic |
| eventually discovered that my heart is most at | | | | family, than alienate the bright international |
| home abroad among the many wonderful people | | | | students and many wonderful ethnic groups |
| of the world. | | | | among us and find ourselves devilishly divided and |
| I particularly took a shine to Asia, where | | | | later embroiled in a lawsuit. |
| two-thirds of the world lives. India and China alone | | | | Truly diversity and cultivating a multi-cultural, |
| account for two-fifths of the world's populace. | | | | inclusive attitude on your college campus is serious |
| Yet if an American college student were to see a | | | | and should be strived for to ensure success for |
| Sikh from India on his college campus, he might | | | | your college and university. |
| mistake him for a Muslim not being multi-culturally | | | | It's time diversity became a cause for celebration |
| aware of the difference. | | | | not division. The world is getting increasingly closer |
| After working on ground zero the first week of | | | | thanks to the arise of the Internet and modern |
| 9-11, I immediately sensed a danger in America's | | | | technology. Our paths are crossing throughout the |
| future foreign policy were we to go full force into | | | | world more and more frequently. The potential |
| "theaters of war" and prematurely and hastily | | | | for new breakthroughs and success via |
| demonize other nationalities and nations we know | | | | cross-pollination academically is limitless. |
| little about. | | | | Therefore let us create an academic community |
| Unfortunately my instincts proved to be correct | | | | where global & multi-cultural awareness is |
| and our government did precisely that. Hence we | | | | cultivated on campus so we can transcend the |
| are now paying for their foreign policy blunders | | | | tendency to fight one another and begin to |
| and still trying to clean up the mess, while | | | | passionately feel for one another as family. |
| simultaneously endeavoring to regain the | | | | |