Describe briefly any experiences and/or skills that have made you more sensitive or appreciative of other cultures or the human condition. (3500 character maximum).

Skills that have made me appreciative of other peoples’ cultures and the human experience at large include cultural competence. I have been trained to be respectful and responsive to the beliefs and practices of diverse groups. Through awareness of my own cultural worldview, knowledge of other cultural practices and worldviews, I have become tolerant of other people’s cultures

the civil war started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. when abraham lincoln won election in 1860 as the first republican president on a platform pledging to keep slavery out of the territories, seven slave states in the deep south seceded and formed a new nation, the confederate states of america. the incoming lincoln administration and most of the northern people refused to recognize the legitimacy of secession. they feared that it would discredit democracy and create a fatal precedent that would eventually fragment the no-longer united states into several small, squabbling countries.

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