People who dress differently, have different diets, or speak with an accent are very often ridiculed. The lack of diversity understanding is not just common among students, professors and teachers are even worst. They always had problem with pronouncing my name right. The worst part was not that they misspelled my name, but it was the lack of efforts on the part of the same professors to correct themselves. The children of diverse cultures that are attending k-12 are going through a horrible time.
Children make fun of their names, accent, clothes, etc.
In most schools there is hardly a food menu that is made for vegetarians are people who may not eat certain food products. Not only they did not think about, but also did not have an alternative. I was truly embarrassed to answer each question why we do not eat certain products. Some people would like to have a place of seclusion in certain times of the day to pray or worship according to their own beliefs, but the US institutions do not have any such places on campuses.