My Friend Tom Woloshyn wearing Titleist golf hat
Student walking to class wearing Class of 2022 High School hat
Female Penn State worker wearing Penn State work hat
UPS driver after delivery wearing UPS hat
The reason why I decided to choose a diverse group of hats for my project is because I personally love wearing hats. I have a very wide variety of hats and when this project was introduced to me, I instantly though about doing hats. In a sense, hats being worn can mean a lot of things including: having to wear them for work, wearing a hat because you like the way it looks, wearing it represent something that you stand for, blocking the sun out of ur face, or simply just because you’re having a bad hair day. Hats can be very diverse and diversity in the society we live in today is something that I value very deeply. In my own words, diversity is the mix and acceptance of backgrounds or differences that a group or culture might have.
The first photograph that I took was of my friend Tom and we were walking to class. This picture shows him wearing his Titleist golf hat with a nice Penn State Nittany lion logo on the side of it. That photo shows diversity because first it is a mix of both the Titleist brand and the Penn State logo, also it is navy blue. Out of all the people I saw on campus he was the only one with that hat. The next photo is a student who I did not know as he was walking to class with a hat that had his high schools logo on it and the class of 2022 stamped on the back. This shows diversity because he is wearing a hat that was from his high school and it is a high grey shaded hat. Next, I took a picture of a female Penn State worker as she was on her break, she was wearing a Penn State work hat. This hat shows diversity because that is only given to workers at Penn State and the design on it might be kind of rare, it also shows she works for Penn State. Finally, I took a photo of a UPS delivery worker wearing his hat that was stamped UPS. This hat might tell us that he works for UPS and the diversity of the hat stands out because of the brown color of the hat and the fact that it represents the company that he works for.
There are many other photos that I couldn’t include in my blog, but the amount of diversity within State College really amazed me. I saw many different types of hats and each hat represents something different to someone and that is special. Before I took the pictures of each person, I explained that them that I was doing a project on diversity within our community and each person seemed to love that idea. This moved me in a way, and one day I hope our society can realize that people and things might be different, but that doesn’t mean there is any reason to exclude anyone.