There are numerous types of diversity and demographic characteristics that have an impact on an individual's behavior. I will examine the impact of each of the following: ethnicity, socioeconomic status, geographical differences, and value and attitude differences.
             Ethnicity is a physical and cultural trait that defines who we are. Ethnicity does not impress a particular behavior upon an individual. The racist use of the crime issue, rising racist and police violence, deepening segregation, criminalization, increasing poverty, homelessness and unemployment, an increase in stereotypes in the mass media, are issues that make society believe that ethnicity has an impact on an individual's behavior. Culture is what impresses a particular behavior upon an individual. If you take a person that socializes with the same ethnicity as they are all of the time and if the group has similar characteristics, then one might speculate that people of that particular ethnicity act a certain way. But if you place a person of a particular ethnicity in a group of people of a different ethnicity, if they all tend to act alike, it would prove that behavior is not defined by ethnicity, but rather so by culture. Society associates an individual's behavior by their ethnicity.
             Socioeconomic status plays a major role on an individual's behavior. Socioeconomic status may refer either to the social standing of a group in American society, the amount of income a family has, or both; though one need not relate directly to the other. The effect of someone having a lowly socioeconomic status can start at an early age when children are first molded. It can have an effect on school because Educators who come from middle and upper class backgrounds may not be aware of the class and cultural differences that working class and poor children face in school and they may attribute students' behavior to lack of intelligence, motivation, or self contro...