Culture and Diversity

I spoke with my sister, a coworker, and my daughter they shared their definition of culture and diversity.  Here are the answers that I received that relates to what I have been studying in this course regarding culture and diversity.  I found it surprising that many people found this question difficult to answer.  Furthermore, the few people who were able to answer the question; answered it in terms of groups of group’s people, but never including information about themselves.

Marilyn:  Culture and diversity relates to the environment that you live in where different groups of people share the same qualities that make the group unique and special. 

Lisa:  Culture and diversity is what makes us who we are, it is whom we spend time with, our beliefs, and how we were raised.  Many things can define religion, music, hobbies, heritage, ethnicity, and us.

Tiana: Culture and diversity is the behaviors and traditions shared by a certain group of people passed down from generation to generations behaviors that make certain groups diverse.

          All three of these answer related to the resource reading “Perceiving and Responding to Differences”.  This article spoke about the differences of people, race, gender, and social class and how it can define people as a group.