missfrizzle
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I'm having some trouble with my diversity essay, and would appreciate some feedback on my tentative idea.
My parents are immigrants from the Middle East, but I've had a pretty fortunate upper middle class upbringing, and have mostly grown up with Arabs from a similar cultural and socioeconomic background. I'd previously done a lot of volunteer tutoring in this community, relating to my students because we share similar experiences. But when I began teaching English to newly arrived Middle Eastern immigrants (one of my significant ECs), I realized that though we shared a similar culture and language, the difference in SES and experiences made tutoring them different and challenging at first. I ended up developing specific, personalized teaching methods that I used in tutoring them, taking their experiences into account (I can go into specific examples in the essay). Essentially, I learned how to practically balance taking people's cultures into account when working with them with not making assumptions about them due to it, as SES and specific experiences play a big role as well. I think that I'd be able to use this with patients in the future.
Is this a decent starting point, or should I scrap this and look for something else?
My parents are immigrants from the Middle East, but I've had a pretty fortunate upper middle class upbringing, and have mostly grown up with Arabs from a similar cultural and socioeconomic background. I'd previously done a lot of volunteer tutoring in this community, relating to my students because we share similar experiences. But when I began teaching English to newly arrived Middle Eastern immigrants (one of my significant ECs), I realized that though we shared a similar culture and language, the difference in SES and experiences made tutoring them different and challenging at first. I ended up developing specific, personalized teaching methods that I used in tutoring them, taking their experiences into account (I can go into specific examples in the essay). Essentially, I learned how to practically balance taking people's cultures into account when working with them with not making assumptions about them due to it, as SES and specific experiences play a big role as well. I think that I'd be able to use this with patients in the future.
Is this a decent starting point, or should I scrap this and look for something else?