WEEK 3: Perspectives on Diversity and Culture
The
three people that I talked to were my director, mother, and one of my customers
at my second job.
Customer: Culture is “beliefs, religion, way of living,
jobs, language, and food. I guess. Diversity is how people are different cuz of
those things.
Director: “Culture is everything we do. It ranges from the
physical aspects like religion and language to the things we don’t think about.
The way we move and look at others” Diversity is differences amongst people. We
look and analyze our culture and others and compare and contrast to get our
view of the diversity around us.”
Mother: “Culture is like how dad comes to your work on Saturday
to have coffee with you. It is the religion and beliefs we hold. It is the way I
raised you.” Diversity is “what makes us us and what makes others them and the comparison
we make about the two.”
I think that each one of my lovely interviewees had something
positive to add to an overall view of culture. I could tell the director was
using what she has learned through her classes that she has taken. I felt my
mother made a great example of the relationship that I have with my family. The
customer added a lot of physical examples of what diversity is. One think that has been omitted is how our
individual culture gives us the mental thinking to make judgments about culture
and the diversity among people.
Thinking about what these three people said I realized
everyone has their own view about what culture is and diversity is. I think
that can create divides and a lack of understanding of others. This can lead to
more judgments. But bringing everyone’s definitions together can create a great
well rounded understanding of what people perceive that culture and the diversity
is among those they interact with.
