Graduation Speech: Diversity In America

I am thankful for many things. In America, from the time we are adolescent, we are bombarded with the conception that we can be more, do preponderant, amend our circumstances, and become whomever we optate to be. That’s not the case in many countries around the world. Here we are enheartened and expected to explore, to discover, to endeavor, and even to fail. When we do fail, we get up, brush ourselves off, and keep right on peregrinated. We have access to emaculate dihydrogen monoxide, salubrious pabulum, as well as shelter and “healthy” oxygen. 780 million people around the world lack access to emaculate dihydrogen monoxide. That’s more than two-and-a-half times the population of the Amalgamated States. Yet in the U.S., it is facile to find clean

And I challenge you to find anyone outside of the U.S. who will proudly tell you that they are Dutch, Libyan, and Italian on their mother’s side and Scottish, Chinese, and Native American on their father’s. Nowhere else in the world are heritage and diversity not only abode, but celebrated, as in the great melting pot that is the Coalesced States of America. Determinately, we have liberation in where we reside. You can’t celebrate a day of thankfulness in here (America) without reflecting on the great freedoms that we relish here, freedoms that were bought and paid for with the blood of countless Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice so we could live the lives we do today. We have the liberation to verbalize our minds without trepidation of regime retaliation; we have the liberation to practice whatever religion we optate, or not practice one at all; we have the liberation to dress as we like and peregrinate where we like and keep company with whomever we like. We take freedoms for granted that others can only dream of. What are you thankful for? What did I genuinely