Saturday, September 22, 2012

Perspectives on Diversity and Culture


1st Person-Kendall

Culture is who I am. It is my background and the heritage that makes me who I am today.  I am an African American my religion is Christian and I was basically raised in the country surrounded by plenty of animals and a lot of work.  I love soul food and I enjoy riding horses as a hobby.  I do not listen to rap, for some reason I like to listen to country music and enjoy being around family.  Diversity is basically the same as culture.  It describes who I am as well as culture. 

2nd Person-Shaerrecca

Culture is the way we live our lives, learn and teach.  Culture is the way we do things in our world.  Like certain food we eat, the way we teach our children and the way we were brought up.    Diversity just simply mean different.  There are no two things exactly alike. 

3rd Person-Kelvin

Culture describes me as a Mexican.  I can speak English and Spanish.  My family spends a lot of time together and we are very close to each other.  I love to work and spend money.  I love Mexican food but I like soul food as well.  I have been eating food from the African American heritage for the last five years.  I have been dating  African American women since I was eighteen and I’ve been in my relationship now over two years.  Diversity is my ability to succeed, the way I was raised and the way I live in the community where I reside.  I am Hispanic, 25 years old, have two brothers and I am not married.

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?  Each individual plainly stated culture as being the way one live and what they eat. “Culture is the way we eat, sleep, talk, play, care for one another, think about work, arrange our kitchen and remember our dead,” (Louis Derman-Sparks & Julie Olsen Edwards).

 

Which aspects have been omitted—and what are some examples of such omission? There were no aspects omitted. 

 

In what ways has thinking about other people’s definitions of culture and diversity influenced my own thinking about these topics?  After listen to each individual they feel the same I do about culture and diversity.  Culture basically describes who you are, what you eat, your religion, and your background.  It is who and how you live your life and it helps other to know some aspects about you as an individual. 

 

Reference

Sparks, Louise & Edwards, Julie O. Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves Chapter 5,

"Learning about Culture, Language, & Fairness" (pp. 56–60)

1 comment:

  1. Laquetta,

    It looks like your friends have a good grasp on what culture is. They even included some of the concepts of the deeper culture (Derman-Sparks, L. & Edwards, J.O., 2010, p. 56). Deeper culture also includes living arrangements, how people show emotion, whether or not they are immigrants, how important health care is to them, etc. (Derman-Sparks et al., 2010, p. 56).
    I look forward to our conversations about culture and diversity in the coming weeks. Thank you for sharing your interviews and your views on culture and diversity.

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