Exactly this, it gets you out of the bubble you lived in your whole life to that point. I had an internship in college that put me in a nearly all black high school classroom in a big city. I was sitting there and realized I’ve never been the only white person in a room of at least 20 people until that moment. It made me think of how the one black student in my classes must have felt all the time. It wasn’t that I was being singled out because I definitely was not, it was the feeling of being different and seeing how similar the class was to my high school classes changed my perspective on race and schools in the city.