Perspectives on Diversity & Culture
The aspects of culture and diversity that I have studied in this course that are included in the answers I received are two-fold. On one hand I had two friends who understood the true definition of culture and diversity, such as knowing that culture is the behaviors and beliefs of a group. On the other hand I had a friend who defined culture by a person's religion, clothing, food, etc. Two got to the heart of what culture and diversity are and the other talked more about the surface measures of culture and diversity.
The aspects that were omitted were the deeper cultural behaviors and norms such as parenting skills, communication styles, etc. Some of the diversity aspects that were omitted included race, gender, profession, and other such identities.
The ways in which thinking about other people's definitions of culture and diversity influenced my own thinking about these topics is that it shed more light on how much I did not know before this course. It also showed me that a lot of people do not understand the true definitions of culture and diversity, especially in relation to children.
Thanks,
Cortnee :)
Cortnee, your friends is right that culture is about the way people religion is and how the way people dress with their clothing they where. Some people like African they dress different from American people. Some people eat different from American people.
Culture describes the way in which a person lives characterizing their language, religion, race, age, the foods they eat, they clothes they wear etc. It is important that we show respect to one's culture which brings in diversity which brings in acceptance and respect. Thanks for sharing.
Cortinee
Deep culture is something that people normally does not observe. People generally look at individual for who they are on the surface and not the inner person.
After doing this assignment, I definitely see the difference in culture and diversity. I think so many people look at culture and diversity as the same thing.