Growing up, McBride faced cultural differences not only from other races but also from his own. He was an African American boy being raised by his white mother who was brought up in a Jewish family. On top of those circumstances, he went to Jewish schools while living in a black neighborhood and once old enough, spent a portion of his teen years in a different city altogether. Although well growing up he only recognized cultural diversity by its definition, as an adult it is obvious what effects it has had on his life.

Cultural diversity is a very important subject that involves things such as, why a group of people do thi

McBride’s mother, Ruth McBride Jordan, grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family living in many different places over the years. While growing up she was exposed to both the Jewish culture and the African American culture. She also experienced problem with both, the first being her own family. This came in the form of abuse from her father who sexually abused her and forced to work incredibly long hours in the family store. Her second problem arose when her African American boyfriend got her pregnant. She was forced to go to New York where her aunt arranged for and abortion. With these problems in her past she left the Jewish religion and became a Christian. Despite her past dilemma with her abortion she went on to marry two African American men.

Through the years which cultural diversity would have had the greatest effect on me would have been middle and high school, unfortunately, the school that I attended greatly lacked in this area being virtually all non-minority. The diversity that I have been subject to has come in my travels across the country. The first place that I noticed this was in Seattle, Washington. This area has a very

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