My upbringing in school has shaped how I view the world in many ways. In school, the books I was told to read were mainly of a white decent and taught a lot about white culture. Majority of these books would be written by white male writers as well. There were very few readings or novels where it talked about diversity and the importance of it. During school I was really only taught the stereotypical facts about race and gender, nothing more. This made me grow up to understand that there is only one way to interpret how someone may be and that is not true. The lack of diversity…