I am answering the prompt below:
1. A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community, or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you.
I am stuck with what to talk about next and how. I have so many experiences in brasil but i dont know which would really captivate a reader.
At such a historical time, when infinite questions about inclusion, diversity, and equality are still ambiguous, I consult myself to explore what it means to me to be a woman of color. When I look at myself in the mirror, I see a skin so white and transparent that I can see the blue blood vessels underneath my skin. My hair is a dull light brown and my eyes, a deep dark brown. However in my opinion, contrary to common belief, a person of color is not one with a different skin color. A person of color is one with a unique ethnic background who is not distinguished from their skin color, but from their choice of interests, different perspectives, and life experiences. Granted, my façade is nothing unique, and causes confusion when I introduce my Brasilian background.
My first birthday was celebrated in Brazil, as well as my fourth, eighth, and sixteenth. However, I haven't been only four times; I've been to visit my enormous family in Brasil at least fifteen times. One day I can wake up in a 14,000 foot house and the next I'm waking up less than 2,000 square feet, but with seven times more family members sitting on the veranda. Within a few hours, I leave the dry, snowy mountains and arrive at the humid, green rainforest of Brasil. After a long flight, there is nothing better than to step out into the warm, humid, air of Brasil. My mother and her sisters and brothers chat the entire two hour drive to our small town, Baldim. I always keep quite in the back, partly to enjoy the culture shock and party because I am embarrassed of my Portuguese.
1. A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community, or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you.
I am stuck with what to talk about next and how. I have so many experiences in brasil but i dont know which would really captivate a reader.
At such a historical time, when infinite questions about inclusion, diversity, and equality are still ambiguous, I consult myself to explore what it means to me to be a woman of color. When I look at myself in the mirror, I see a skin so white and transparent that I can see the blue blood vessels underneath my skin. My hair is a dull light brown and my eyes, a deep dark brown. However in my opinion, contrary to common belief, a person of color is not one with a different skin color. A person of color is one with a unique ethnic background who is not distinguished from their skin color, but from their choice of interests, different perspectives, and life experiences. Granted, my façade is nothing unique, and causes confusion when I introduce my Brasilian background.
My first birthday was celebrated in Brazil, as well as my fourth, eighth, and sixteenth. However, I haven't been only four times; I've been to visit my enormous family in Brasil at least fifteen times. One day I can wake up in a 14,000 foot house and the next I'm waking up less than 2,000 square feet, but with seven times more family members sitting on the veranda. Within a few hours, I leave the dry, snowy mountains and arrive at the humid, green rainforest of Brasil. After a long flight, there is nothing better than to step out into the warm, humid, air of Brasil. My mother and her sisters and brothers chat the entire two hour drive to our small town, Baldim. I always keep quite in the back, partly to enjoy the culture shock and party because I am embarrassed of my Portuguese.