Handling Diversity
August 20th, 2026
Today was hectic! A family function had me travelling through the south of Delta to Bayelsa state. Nothing prepares you for the exhaustion that long journeys bring along with them. Matter of fact, as soon as I got home, I crashed. This trip kinda explained why we were called Delta state, and it just made perfect sense. We must’ve passed through twenty or more bridges over bodies of water. The Forcados river was particularly large, and it served as the natural boundary between both states. There was so much greenery in the area, contrasting nicely with the white sand that is the natural soil in that area. As we moved along, it was easy to note the change in the terrains and with it the language and culture of the people groups.
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Being in such a setting set my mind on the word diversity. An observation I’ve made overtime in multi-cultural settings like ours is that more often than not, we tend to hold on to our different cultures as major and irreconciliable differences. We make these contexts our whole personalities without making edits, and this tends towards creating tall walls, further seperating us from others. With this mindset, people outside the cultural bubble are treated slightly different and less than others. While I think it’s very important to respect our different cultures and all, they can be approached differently. Diversity should be more of a context thing, providing depth to people, which they then combine with their personalities and experiences to build convinctions that they would ultimately run their lives on. When we’re contributing to conversations, our backgrounds should provide context and depth, and not be our entire personality. In a crowd, if everyone brings their backgrounds as a context and not their reason for being, we would’ve eliminated the unnecessary segregations that come with tribal bias. It would help us eliminate unnecessary stereotypes (which I think do us a great disservice) . I hope this makes sense to you.
Something interesting that happened today was me discovering some relatives. After toying with the factual idea that the cousins I have are way older, I’m starting to meet their kids who are in the same age group as I am. Honestly, my cousin’s kids are my cousins as well. Well, I say it’s never too late to build family bonds. I met two cousins today, and it’s clear we would get along so well. Cheers to that!
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