Perspectives on Culture and Diversity

Perspectives on Culture and Diversity

Responses	Definition of Diversity	Definition of Culture
Response #1	Diversity is what makes one person different from another.	Culture is who you are. It is your race, your religion and what you believe is important.
Response #2	Diversity deals with how people view themselves and others. Someone may have a diverse or different perspective than I do.	Your culture involves your traditions and beliefs. Culture is in what we eat, what we wear and what we believe in.

These are the responses I got after asking two different people their definitions of diversity and culture. It seems to me that their definitions were similar. They both thought that diversity had to deal with being different and that culture comes from family background and traditions.

Which aspects of culture and diversity that I have studied in this course are included in the answers I received—and what are some examples?

Some aspects that I have studied in this course and see in the responses are that culture involves aspects of family, traditions, foods, religion and how we perceive things around us.

Which aspects have been omitted—and what are some examples of such omission?

No one referred to how our cultures affect how we operate in society or how our cultures cause us to take on roles in society.

I still believe that culture is rooted in family. Your family teaches what you will value and how you will perceive the world outside of the family unit. I still believe that diversity is the uniqueness in people and what makes them different from each other.