Perspectives on Diversity and Culture

 Perspectives on Diversity and Culture

 

Person one:

The definition of culture is:  “the family, home, my religion, my particular cultural nationality, the norms and values of my particular culture”.

Diversity:  Different types of culture, different nationalities, with different races,

Person two

The definition of culture is: what you get from your immediate family, what you see, what you hear, pictures in your home, all become apart of your culture

The definition of diversity is:   differences, diversity is going to be there no matter where you are or what culture you are involved in.  How you deal with it, is how your family presents diversity to you.

Person three

The definition of culture: Your heritage, religion, nationality, family background

The definition of diversity:  economic diversity the poor verses the wealthy, the old verses the young

Person Four: 

Culture:  trait particular people, traditions, particular ceremony

Diversity differences between people and their: culture, religion, belief, style, 

Fifth Person

Culture is:  a way of life including spirituality, mode of dress, foods, and the way a family interacts.

Diversity is:  the many differences among people.

 The people that I interviewed spoke about the culture of family, race, tradition including ceremonies.  The diversity they spoke of was differences between people; their culture, and religion.  Knowing cultural ceremonies will give you an understanding of why East Indian bride wear red dresses because white is a burial color for their culture.

Some of the aspects that have been omitted are; community connection, recreation, historic events, gender roles, housing arrangements, extended family relationships, intergenerational relationships, ideas about education, health care, showing emotions, and migration. The people that I interviewed gave surface culture, and what I learned in this course is that deep culture exposes ad explores more of who the person is.  A persons who practices a certain faith i.e. Orthodox   Judaism; men wear large black hats and curled side burns, and the women do not show their hair instead they wear wigs.  In this sect of Jews, they place the men in the front and the women in the rear.  Understanding this culture will allow you to get along with other cultures better.

As I listened to these four people speak about their understanding of culture and diversity I realized how shallow my understanding was prior to this course.  There is so much to learn about a person’s culture and how to respect the cultural diversity in our world.