Hwang su Kim

 

April 29, 2004

 

Hi, my name is Hwang su Kim.

I’ve been here, the Webb School, for four years, and I am South Korean.

I stand here to explain as one of the subjects of Webb school students, especially for foreign students, about how I feel and wish for this coming Diversity Day.

300 or 400 is not a little number of populations in one community.

However, at the same time, a community of 300 or 400 people in it is a small society compared to the entire world.

In this small group of people, everybody is different; and most importantly, about 10 or 15 of diverse cultures are mixed and tangled together.

Obviously, I am describing the Webb school.

The Webb community is organized and made up of various races and cultures by its diversity of each one of our geographical reasons or situations.

Although it is seemed that we are well harmonized and united, a lot of times, I could see cultural shocks or differences among us.

It could be visible or not.

The world is changing.

It is now a general idea that no one in the world is superior or inferior to others.

Diversity day is not a day for those minor racial people in here.

To break the invisible and ultimate gap among our members of Webb community, we all should get rid of stereotype that the Diversity day is only a day for an exhibition or showcase of those people from strange countries.

This time, I desperately hope to see the most interactive and communicative Diversity day compared to the past.