Cultural Diversity: Discussion Topics

The book also explores how despite immigration seeing as a normality in the Silicon Valley area, most of the interaction is shaped by differences in ethnic and racial traits. Jimenez explains that “the way that interviewees articulated the “us” and “them” in their lives comported with social-scientific research that emphasizes ethnic and racial differences as sources of both unity and division” (Jimenez, 2017). Although the cultural diversity is so ingrained in the community of Silicon Valley, this diversity is also a constant reminder of the racial and ethnic differences in the community which could sometimes generate negative outcomes. It does not only serve as a source of unity, like with the mixed culture it generates, but it also could

America is greatly influenced and enhanced by the many versatile cultures which inhabit it. Cultural diversity has added to our economy in such a way that it brings innovated ideas and contact structures throughout the world. International cuisines have come to America through subcultures, have expanded the food industry, and have allowed English Americans to try new foods and flavors. Immigrants have brought with them religious values that greatly differ and vary from those at which were natural in the main stream American culture. The educational development through foreign nationals has led America, as a nation, to excel and be deemed one of the most intelligent nations in the world! Consequently, the subcultures have kept our

Diversity is so much more than skin color, gender, religion, or ethnicity. To me, diversity means understanding other societies within our own. In the video “Why Cultural Diversity Matters”, Michael Gavin explains how our society is losing cultural diversity. He gives an example of how David’s native language is dying out in his country.

Organizations are made up of man & woman, many cultures & races, and multiple generations. Some of the organizations are also comprised of disable employees. This is what we called diversity. Diversity is something that has been around in the organizations for decades. Diversity in Collins Dictionary means, the state or quality of being different or varied and range of different things. It is synonyms to variety, mixture, range, and multiplicity. According to Queensborough Community College in its website define diversity as “Understanding that each individual is unique, and recognizing our individual differences. These can be along the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs, or other ideologies.” Diversity is the mixture of people, culture, race, ethnicity, and more. Diversity can somehow affect the employees and can be challenges to the managers.

A way this movie can relate to this class would be the diversity issues of race, and gender. In my Cultural Diversity class we learn a lot about diversity in race and gender and what causes it to take place which can lead to your values of families back then. Values were completely different years back. If you’re taught what is right is to have slaves and it’s all you ever see then people will follow along. Because, if you don’t follow along with the values of ones close to you sometimes it could of lead to death, judgement from family and friends, or even becoming a slave yourself as punishment. Values are described as the deep subjective ideals and standards by which members of a culture judge their personal actions and those of others(Page

Thus, entrepreneur satisfies the demand and makes profits. Of course, there is nothing eternal and everything will lose its importance, but the mechanism of capitalism is great. (The history of capitalism: from feudalism to Wall Atreet, Beattie, 2011).

America if a culture forever changing. You can see when stroll into town or in a supermarket, we see the diversity of our country. America is a culture of diversity. America is a culture of diversity because of the difference between religion, politics, people, their food, and even clothing.

I was very young when I had my first encounter with cultural diversity. At the time I thought I was the only person that had experienced things like this. When I was five years old my family, father, mother, and sister moved from Illinois to California. This didn’t really mean much to me at the time I didn’t remember much about being in Illinois. The first thing I did remember was that it wasn’t cold here. Next was the house it was big. After a couple days there I was enrolled in school, this was the early 60’s East Los Angeles. The school like my neighborhood was all Black/Negro. I felt comfortable. After three months we moved to West Los Angeles. Here was where things would start to change. First my neighborhood, on a block of thirty

In accordance with Forehand & Kotchick, (2016) cultural diversity is considered to be a condition where different social group and communities are present in one geographical region or in particular entity having different races, belief systems, behaviour, colour, perception, language, religion, ethnic background etc. Moreover, Lambert, (2016) emphasized that diversity management consideration by means of generating shared belief systems, respect for group’s beliefs, values, norms and evasion of biasness, stereotyping, racism, nationalism and other types of discriminatory aspects creates issues if not properly managed within a community or organization. Furthermore, considering Australia’s multi-culturism circumstances are associated with colonial connections, immigration based cultural diversity creation along with indigenous populace reflecting higher number of diversity elements through language, race, religion, norms, belief systems, living ways, and others (Santoro & Kennedy, 2016).

There are numerous forms of diversity-related issues and cultural dilemmas, which afflict individuals or groups. Both aspects have positives and negatives that may or may not impact others, depending on perspective. For instance, gender can be thought as biologically and by genitalia who is considered to be a man and a woman (Kahn, 2015). This definition may not be all encompassing, as it is much more complex than this. There are individuals that may be transitioning from a man to a woman or vice versa or may identify as a woman or man. In fact, gender has become the center of controversy, for individuals that are transitioning and respecting their right to utilize the appropriate restroom in public. Therefore, this affects individuals that

It is important to consider Sarah’s background that stems from a traditional, first generation Filipino family. As she reported her family history, it is quite clear that mental health services have been underutilized and possibly frown upon as evidenced by her recalling her grandmother being critical of going to see a doctor, even for small ailments. Also she described how her family has always held on to the belief that family problems should remain in the family and how it was considered a weakness to seek help for problems that should be endured. This alludes to the possibility of heavy stigma within her culture and her family system in where strong Christian values and traditions also played a

In regards to diversity training, a third of the SLPs reported not receiving training on multicultural issues as students. A greater percentage of the SLPs working in diverse or non-diverse urban areas had received more extensive training on multicultural issues than those working in rural areas. The survey revealed that SLPs had received training on topics within the questionnaire pertaining to delivery of service concerns more than topics related to cultural issues. With that in mind, half of the SLPs reported they had not received training at all on topics pertaining to cultural issues. When asked about continuing education, the participants mentioned they had received 1.5-3 different types of continuing education activities to gain further

That doesn?t mean I don?t have any biases; because I do. Some I had growing up, others I have now. But either way, I always wanted to eradicate them because they only destroy you and

The current United States of America population based on the estimates by the United Nations is 326,122,404 which is equivalent to 4.28% of the total population in the world. In the United States, the population density is 36 per Km2. The entire area of the U.S land is estimated to be 9,000,000 Km2. About 83.7% of the United States population lives in the urban areas. The median age in America is about 37.8 years.

Since I started this class, I have a learned a great deal about cultural diversity in the classroom and abroad. My perspective has changed slightly but my knowledge of this subject has improved. In my family, my father taught me about the civil rights movement and the evils of segregation in the U.S. My parents taught me to be tolerant of all humans, no matter what they look like, how they dress, or their sexual orientation. My family has always been liberal thinkers who taught me the dark history of racism and bigotry in this country. As an educator I would be accepting to all race, creeds, and religious peoples.