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Assignment Week 3: Perspectives on Diversity and Culture
Student
Name: Angie Woods
EDUC-6164-8,
Perspective Diversity & Equity
Instructor:
Laura Tuthill
Walden
University
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Assignment Week 3: Perspectives on Diversity and Culture
Student
Name: Angie Woods
In
meeting with some colleagues this week the topic of discussion was cultural
diversity and each person had a different way in how they defined cultural
diversity. I had a conversation with three wonderful people about cultural
diversity. Each person defined cultural diversity: Person 1. He is a teacher he has been teaching over three years. He
believes that culture is the way people have been raised to live by their
family. He believes that diversity is a group based on differences of race,
gender, sexual orientation, social class and disability. Person 2: She is in a Head
Start Program who has been a teacher for two years. She believes that cultural diversity is the
inclusion of diverse people in a group or organization that embrace cultural
diversity in the workplace or school area with different types of culture of
people. Person 3: She is a Head Start Center Director for
over three years. She believe that cultural diversity is a gender roles that shaped
our culture’s ideals for masculine and feminine behavior in ways that have been
modified but not radically changed since the early years of time.
What
was interesting to me is that each person had their way of how they viewed
cultural diversity. When I talked to person 1 once he told me he believes that
diversity is a group based on differences of race, gender, sexual orientation,
social class and disability. Now I had to ask him how disability went with cultural
diversity. He told me because some disabilities are passed out among the
community to be involved in helping different cultures seek help for people
with disabilities. That is seen in the same light as equality for other
minority communities where social structures such as prejudice, segregation,
inaccessibility and cultural/religious beliefs are the problems.
In reflecting
on my conversations with the three people about culture and diversity I have learned
that still people defines cultural diversity totally different. I also learned
that people have their own why in how they understand cultural meaning to the
best of their own knowledge. I see I need to learn more about cultural
diversity but I find that this was very interesting doing because so far what I
have learn that everyone has their own social identity in what they believe in .
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