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HUMAN DIVERSITY IN A HIGHLY DIVERSE WORLD
Kathlyn Q. Barrozo
Class of 1991, University of Santo Tomas
B.S. Medical Technology
The entire universe is a plethora of apparent diversity. The very fact that different people all over the globe live
with highly-diverse cultures and varying races, religions, and ways of life demonstrates the fact that we have
been created to be different. We enjoy things differently, do all manner of things differently, view things in
varying levels of approval and disapproval. These are just some of the considerations that show us how diverse
we have all been from the very beginning.
Even twins, whose identical birthdates and countenances, show diversity. Most are born seconds or minutes or
even hours apart. Growing up, they may also exhibit differences no matter how small they may be or how their
parents dress them in identical clothes. They do share a certain unbreakable bond which experts attribute to
their arising from the same zygote, and for twins who are fraternal, two separate zygotes being fertilized by
two sperm cells but still being produced in the same pregnancy. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin)But they
still exhibit diversity, just the same.
Our own Creator, in Whose infinite goodness we have come to be on this plane of existence, has made it all the
more demonstrable how diverse we are: no two fingerprints are exactly the same, no matter how botched up a
crime investigation is (Smirk! Smirk!). This is the primary reason why all crime scene investigations commence
with the dusting for prints, in the hopes that viable ones can be taken to give light as to the perpetrator’s
identity or other. Sloppy criminals who haven’t been watching CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, or whatever version
there may be of the popular television program may just slip up and forget how the crime scene will be
thoroughly dusted for prints made by fingers, palms or feet.
The world itself is a picture of diversity. I live in a tropical country where the seasons are readily divided into
two classifications: wet and dry, although one of my former students used to remark that the categories could
very well be hot and very hot. But no two days are exactly the same. There will always be something about a
particular day that doesn’t make it an exact replica of the day before nor the day after it. Unless of course, you
were stuck in a time loop that got you stuck in a day that kept repeating itself. If that were the case, imagine
how many historical mistakes could easily be righted, or how many crimes could be solved!
But the fact remains that we live in an ever-changing world with ever-changing days and nights. The world is
highly-diverse like us humans who inhabit the earth.
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION:
1.
Diversity is a rather difficult topic to discuss in a concrete manner. How would you tackle it if you had
to write a paper on it?
2.
Why do you think we have been created differently?
3.
How is diversity of the human race both an advantage and a disadvantage?
4.
In your opinion, what makes diversity difficult to comprehend for humans?
5.
What makes you different from others? Why do you think that?