Diversity Worksheet

Associate Program Material

Diversity Worksheet

Answer each question in 50 to 150 words. Provide citations for all the sources you use.

1. What is diversity? Why is diversity valued? In the Queensborough Community College Website, it says “The concept of diversity encompasses acceptance and respect. It means 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 valued because everyone is different, not one person is the same, and they are unique. We tend to reject what is different. Our diversities can lead to growth as a society or it can lead to violence and hatred. We should value our diversity in order to come together as a whole within the society and world. http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/diversity/definition.html 2. What is ethnocentrism? In what ways can ethnocentrism be detrimental to a society? Ethnocentrism is the tendency to assume that one’s culture and the way of life are superior to others. Ethnocentrism can be detrimental, to cause harm, to a society because it can start a fight amongst others. People who are ethnocentric believe that they are better than other people; this could cause chaos amongst the other people whom the ethnocentric person believes is lower than them.

3. Define emigration and immigration. The term emigration means to leave a country to settle in another. The term immigration means to have someone come to a new country as a permanent resident.

4. What are some of the ways groups of people are identified? There are four types of groups (minority or subordinate groups) of people that are identified in are: race, ethnicity, religion, and gender. Racial group is a group that is socially set apart because of obvious physical differences. Ethinicity group is a group of national origin or distinctive cultural patterens. Religion groups are seprated by what relgion one is practicing. Gender groups are sorted out by women and men.

5. Why do people label and group other people? People label people into groups because they want to feel better about themselves. If they place a person in a group its because they feel insecure about what group they are in. By labeling and grouping people is like being a bully, they look at what they see and place them in what they believe is for example if I see a girl dressed like a guy, I automatically believe they are a lesbian or a tomboy. Its like judging a box by the cover.

6. Define culture. Is culture limited to racial and ethnic backgrounds? Explain. Culture consists of the beliefs, behaviors, objects, and other characteristics common to the members of a particular group or society. I don’t think that cultur is limited to racial and ethnic backgrounds because not everyone the same race and ethnic share the same culture.