Diversity Scholarship Research Paper

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Diversity Scholarship Essay
How will you contribute to the diversity at the University of Kentucky?
For some time of my life, I never considered myself diverse. To me during that time growing up, I thought to be a part of the diverse minority it meant that you did not belong. Although because of who I was and how I was raised, I developed myself on a basis of my family. Over the past 12 years my parents took my brother and I to Cambodian monastery temples. I recall going to ones in Silver Spring, MD, Chicago, IL, Atlanta, GA, Nashville, TN, and here in Lexington, and Louisville, KY. Experiencing different communities helped shaped my understanding of what diversity really means. My parents did not take me to these temples to put the knowledge