Saturday, May 25, 2013

Perspectives on Diversity and Culture


Person 1:

Culture to me is the traditions beliefs and parts of family that are practiced as well as passed on to the next generation.

True diversity is when people form all walks of life can live together in peace embracing each others culture and differences while understanding that we are all human and that being human makes us all alike.

Person 2:

Culture is the behaviors, traditions, socially acceptable patterns of conduct held by a group of people sharing the same race, ethnicity, or country.

Diversity is the differences and variety that each individual brings.

Person 3:

Culture is your belief system, traditions, and dialect passed down from generations.

Diversity  is having people of different culture coexisting and working together as a community and learning that there culture isn’t wrong its just different.

Summary

The aspects of culture that I have studied in this course that are included in the answers I received are some of the deeper culture elements such as a persons language, their religion (or beliefs), and how the culture is something that is passed down.

It was interesting that the people I asked the questions to omitted the values that people in different cultures have.

In thinking about the responses to culture and diversity form the three people I spoke with it is evident that people have similar thought on what culture encompasses but still do not realize that culture influences and affects everything we do or do not do.

3 comments:

  1. The people that I spoke with gave a lot of the same answers and your 3 people did. Most of said they believe culture is also about values. It is interesting to learn what others think of culture and diversity.

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  2. upon analyzing further, do you feel they truly went deeper, or just touched on the surface of culture?

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  3. The individuals you contacted has given you detailed information on their perspective of culture and diversity. The individuals I contacted kind of hit heads when it came to diversity.

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