Diversity: noun, plural -ties. 1. the state or fact of being diverse; difference; unlikeness. 2. variety; multiformity. 3. a point of difference.
Diversity By: Eiryn Hodges
I chose photo number two.The Core Democratic Value that connects to this photograph is diversity.This connects because the people in the photograph are, though Americans like ourselves, highly different.For example they dress quite different from what we wear now. The women in Greenfield Village, who dressed like it was that time period, wore long cotton gowns with bonnets shielding their faces from the sun.When I look at them standing next to Devroe who was in my group, I see a big difference.Devroe, wearing a tank-top, shorts, and flip-flops next to a woman wearing a long dress, a bonnet, and boots!Also men wore different clothes. Long pants and shirts made of the same material as the dresses.On sweltering days, like the one on which we went, I wouldn’t be able to stand the heat.
Another difference shown is in education!Girls got close to no schooling. In a public school back then a girl would learn a bit of reading, some writing, and a little arithmetic.They would also learn to sew.If a girl went to a private college on the other hand, she would also learn sciences and geography and other advanced knowledge. Girls who went to these colleges would stitch samplers to show what they had learned.For boys learning was much the same.One of the few differences for boys was that people just didn’t know as much as they do now.The other big difference was all grades were in one room with one teacher.That is how the photograph connects to diversity.