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Confusion still remains behind the words social diversity. What is it really? Well, in Merriam-Webster’s dictionary there is not a word for social diversity as a whole, but broken down to social and diversity. Social in the Merriam-Webster’s dictionary means: tending to form cooperative and interdependent relationships with others of ones own kind. Diversity in the Merriam-Webster’s dictionary means: the condition of being diverse, variety. If these two words are but together they would then mean: people tending to form cooperative and interdependent relationships with a diverse or variety of people. Behind these words lie the basic underlying assumptions about how people get along with each other and how they are living up to there own expectations and the expectations of other people. Thus, knowing what social diversity means I have done a social experiment that pertains to this issue. My social experiment has to do with the way people react to names. I work at a restaurant called Garfield’s and at this restaurant as a server when greeting tables we must tell the table our name and write it backwards on the table so the customers can read it. My name is Tyger-Lynn not a name you hear too often so, for my exp