Perspectives
on Diversity and Culture
What is your definition
of culture?
Relative
1 (female): Culture is the practices or rituals that are taught.
Relative
2 (male): Culture
is your background; where you come from.
Family
Friend (female): Culture is understanding where people come from.
What is your definition
of diversity?
Relative
1 (female): Diversity is putting different people together in one
place.
Relative
2 (male): Diversity
is accepting everybody’s differences
Family
Friend (female): Diversity is not necessarily agreeing with but being
accepting
of other peoples’ differences.
A cultural group’s practices and rituals
can be thought of as a group’s surface culture or the things people on the outside of the group can easily
see, taste and define such as a groups costumes, holidays, food and historical
artifacts. In addition, an understanding of where a group’s background and
their ancestors are from can be thought of as a culture’s deep culture such as their
language, their values, their ideas on education, their gender and children
roles, their connections to the community and their religious beliefs, etc. (Derman-Sparks,
2010).
According to the responses I received,
diversity is not necessarily agreeing with but putting people together in one
place and being accepting of other peoples differences such as their race, gender, age, abilities,
disabilities, their language, social class, economical level, their ethnicity and
national origin, their religious and spiritual practices, their sexuality and after
considering the examples, I found all the responses to be on-target and somewhat
inclusive of all the ways culture and diversity can be explained (Gonzalez-Mena,
2008).
References
Derman-Sparks, L., Edwards, J.O. (2010).Anti-Bias
Education for Young Children and
Ourselve. pp. 56–60.
Gonzalez-Mena, J. (2008). Diversity in Early Care and
Education. Boston, MA: McGraw
Hill. 5th ed., pp. 8–1.
Hello Charlene,
ReplyDeleteI agree that diversity is not necessarily agreeing with a person, but putting people together in one place and being accepting of other peoples differences. It's important to understand diversity and how it plays a major role in our everyday lives. Thanks for sharing their responses on culture and diversity.
It looks like all the people you have interviewed thought of culture as the past and not the present. Your culture does have a past but it also has a present and a future.
ReplyDeleteAs for the people you have interviewed about diversity, it looks like the common word is difference. However, female relative 1 defines diversity as "diversity is putting different people together in one place". You can be in the same place and still group a like people together. If you take a look at my senior high school group picture we all took a picture together but you do see most of the white teenagers group together while the rest of the group was black. Is that picture really diverse?