Urban Teaching in a Diverse Setting

Honestly I have not given a lot of thought to the matter of exactly who I want to teach. I suppose I was thinking that I would just teach, not about who I would be teaching. I guess I wanted to teach younger children who are still at the age when things like race and ethnicity don't matter unless someone tells them it does. I wanted to mold the minds of impressionable children who still looked at the world through innocent eyes, not try to teach people to re-think what they learned in years previous from parents or tv or their personal background. In short, I wanted to try to catch the minds of the children before they got to the point where they were jaded and/or to the point that they felt they couldn't be helped.

I suppose I don't want to teach in an urban setting. I have always favored more open areas, where I could feel the wind and smell the grass or whatever. I just don't picture myself in an area that is surrounded by tall, imposing buildings where there is more smog than actual air. In relation to this, I guess I would be teaching children who are different from me. More than likely, I will be teaching majority White and or Asian children as they are typically the people who live in more suburban areas. And although I hope to find a very diverse place to teach, I know that the likely-hood of that happening in the setting that I envision is...slim.

I have not really given much thought to the ethnicity of the children I will be teaching. In my mind, although you do see things like skin color and other characteristics that stand out naturally, they are still children to me. Are they really all that different from a Black child or any other kid?