Cultual Diversity in My Community
Cultural diversity is a major epidemic in this world today. There are many small towns that do not want to deal with the diversity of people and do not want to accept diversity into their community. My community, which is known as Princeton, was developed in the early 1800 's, and we are one of those communities. The most common issues with cultural diversity are race and gender. Although the majority of people in my community feel that the days of cultural diversity are long gone, I would have to beg to differ with them and bring to their attention a few of the opposing issues that still occur here in our community. As our textbooks have taught us, cultural diversity has been alive since the beginning of time and from the way that it looks, it will continue to be around. As mentioned in our textbook the dominant groups would use the minority groups to labor for themselves. (Schaefer, 2006) The community that I live in is known for its cotton, onions, cantaloupe, and lumber. In the 1880 's and 1890 's our community was one of the largest markets for bos d 'arc logs. The first cotton gin was built in 1895. In 1936, 297 train cars of onions were shipped out of our community. As the years went by, the onion distribution was replaced by cantaloupe farming, which became and is still a major part of cropping for our community. In 1912, our community was incorporated. By the 1930 's the cotton, onion, and cantaloupe farming was so large, the representatives of the community requested a migratory farm labor camp from the Farm Security Administration. The camp housed 300 to 400 immigrants during the picking seasons until the camp was closed in 1969.(Bull, 2007) They were brought into the community to work these farms and were housed away from the dominant groups. According to some of the elderly people of my community, the minority groups were treated horribly and hardly received pay for the labor that they performed.
The majority of the people here in my
The majority of the people here in my
References: Schaefer, R., (2006). Racial and Ethnic Groups (10th ed.) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Practice Hall Engbrock, C., (2006, May 15). Banning Immigrants from Farmers Branch Is it right? The Princeton Herald. Retrieved June 10, 2007, from http://www.princetonherald.com Bull, J., (2007) Chamber of Commerce Princeton. Retrieved May 23, 2007, from http://www.princetontx.com/History.html