Reflection on Social Justice, Diversity, and the Hallmarks

The Notre Dame de Namur hallmarks are a set of values that I feel everyone should look up to as standards for one’s character. They develop a person all around personality to be members of social justice and they help people accept diversity. Hallmark 5 says that “We embrace the gift of diversity” and that something I have come to accept and love because I grew up in a non-diverse school. After coming to NDNU, I have met so many people of races I have never really been acquainted to. Diversity is something our school encourages and I am glad it does because I have met many close friends of different races at this school. We love to share our experiences of being our respective races and to make fun of any common stereotypes in good fun. Social justice is something that can be improved as long as there is diversity. When there are multiple races in a community there is less chance for acts of social injustice because everyone would be respectful of each other’s ethnic backgrounds. The main cause of social injustice is when there is so much of one race such that there is nothing a minority can do to protect themselves. In today’s society, social injustice is rampant and together we must do something to protect one another. Implementing the hallmarks into our life would help everyone treat diversity as a gift from God and hence lead to less social injustices.