Perspectives on Diversity and Culture

The three people that I talked to all had about the same definition of culture and diversity. My son defined cultural has the beliefs that people have. Diversity he described is the way people are different about their cultural.

My brother-in-law said that culture is that of a person’s race, choice of religion, and how they live. He believes that diversity is what makes you different from others.

The last person I talked to was a friend who is a teacher and he says that culture is a quantity of the life people live. It includes morals, behavior and the principle that is handed down over generations. Diversity is the mixture of all different types of culture and how people live.

I agreed with them all but words that sounded very familiar were beliefs, way of life, action and everything about them.

 

I think that all the information that I received from the answers to the questions are things that I have studied in this class and others. Especially, when it came to the words of their beliefs, their way of life and how they lived and passed it on.

As educators, we need to put our prejudices to the side and focus on the children and families that we work with.  Another thing we need to do is make sure that we are respecting and honoring their background.

In any case regardless of where you are from you will always come in meet someone that comes from a different culture?  It is what makes a person who they are.  It is valuable to know how to interact with people that are different because that is what the world is made of.