Bending Reality Magazine April

"Diverse"

By S.Turner (LYRICAL EXPRESSONIST)

Changes, changes you can make them at any age change your life your circumstances. Diverse is on my mind diversity thinking outside of the box. Thinking outside the box in this way you can accept many races, cultures, countries too. Like Martin Luther King Jr. I want to sit at the table of brotherhood with many variety yes indeed. I want to see faces of different colors and countries all together. I want to love in a way where diversity is in my love my relationship doesn't matter if we are two different colors what matters is our love for one another. I want to smile at children that are products of love diverse. Diversity is where it's at accepting many things not just what you know. Diversity is learning other cultures and about countries and customs. Diversity is me it's what I stand for. I got my head outside the box and I am no longer stuck in just the world I grew up in. Diversity, diverse I aspire to be that and a voice for diversity for I am not ashamed of my diverse ways. I take my love that is diverse and I live and be happy. I also am a cheerleader for diversity cheering diversity on! Think outside the box experience different things and cultures and races. By S.Turner

Diversity [dih-vur-si-tee, dahy-] IPA Syllables

Synonyms Examples Word Origin

Noun, plural diversities.

1.The state or fact of being diverse; difference; unlikeness: diversity of opinion.

2.Variety; multiformity.

3.the inclusion of individuals representing more than one national origin, color, religion, socioeconomic stratum, sexual orientation, etc.:

Diversity in the workplace.

4.A point of difference.

Origin of diversity Expand

Middle English

Anglo-French

Latin 1300-1350

1300-50; Middle English diversite < Anglo-French < Latindīversitās. See diverse, -ity

Synonyms Expand

2. Change, difference, variation, dissimilarity.

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Examples from the web for diversity Expand

For difference of character leads to difference of aims, and the result of such diversity is to estrange friends. The university's commitment to diversity, specifically, appealed to her. The game should encourage diversity Results showed that participants were indeed aware of biodiversity for plant species -- though less so for bird diversity. The advantage of seeds is their low cost and great diversity. That diversity made dogs an interesting puzzle for geneticists. The wetlands of this ecoregion host a diversity of waterfowl and wading birds. Fossils tell a new story about the diversity of hominid diets. In the latter, bird diversity was limited to horned larks, killdeer and cowbirds. However, the island lacks the high levels of diversity seen in mainland.

British Dictionary definitions for diversity

Diversity /daɪˈvɜːsɪtɪ/

Noun

1.the state or quality of being different or varied

2.a point of difference

3.(logic) the relation that holds between two entities when and only when they are not identical; the property of being numerically distinct

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Word Origin and History for diversity Expand

N. mid-14c., "quality of being diverse," mostly in a neutral sense, from Old French diversité (12c.) "Difference, diversity, unique feature, oddness:" also "wickedness, perversity," from

Latin diversitatem (nominative diversitas) "contrariety, contradiction, disagreement;" also, as a secondary sense, "difference, diversity," from diverse "turned different ways" (in Late Latin "various"), past participle of divertere (see divert).

Negative meaning, "being contrary to what is agreeable or right; perversity, evil" existed in English from late 15c. but was obsolete from 17c. Diversity as a virtue in a nation is an idea from the rise of modern democracies in the 1790s, where it kept one faction from arrogating all power (but this was not quite the modern sense, as ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, etc. we’re not the qualities in mind):

The dissimilarity in the ingredients which will compose the national government, and still more in the manner in which they will be brought into action in its various branches, must form a powerful obstacle to a concert of views in any partial scheme of elections. There is sufficient diversity in the state of property, in the genius, manners, and habits of the people of the different parts of the Union, to occasion a material diversity of disposition in their representatives towards the different ranks and conditions in society. ["Federalist" #60, Feb. 26, 1788 (Hamilton)] Specific focus (in a positive sense) on race, gender, etc. is from 1992.

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