We live in a society where diversity is the norm. People of different cultures, races, and religions are inhabitants of this melting pot we call America. Since birth my cultural identity could of have been expressed as a middle class, Muslim American male of Palestinian descent. Both my parents were born in raised in the Gaza Strip, and moved to America to start a family and a living. However, my parent’s decision to move from their motherland to America did not impact their strong hold of our culture and religion. I was raised with the Palestinian culture and the Islamic religion. My parents sent me to an Islamic school all my life, where the faculty’s mission was to teach the Islamic religion and make it a strong role in our every daily lives, in and out of school. From my very Islamic upbringing to entrance into college I had very little contact with anyone who was not Muslim or of Arab descent. Upon entry into college I was exposed to classmates who were not Muslim, yet student of different religions and ideals. As a student in an Islamic school all my life, I was surrounded by individuals who were raised being taught the same religion and adopting the same culture. Gender relations played a big role in in the Islamic school I attended all my life. I follow my religion and try to implement it in my life in my everyday actions, however my school environment took it too far when it came to communicating with the opposite gender. Students of the opposite gender were not allowed to communicate with each other for whatever reason unless given permission by one of the faculty. Students however talked to each other after school, which made talking to the opposite gender outside more tempting and unnecessarily promiscuous. I realized this idea to be a bit too extreme once I became employed as an EMT in my neighborhood. I realized that as a Muslim living in America one must communicate and interact with the other gender in order to fit in and be part of society. I figured that instead of being taught to block communicating with another, we should be preparing for the outside world, where cultures and religio