eth_125_r8_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?

Diversity is basically the condition of being different and many times people think diverity is just about race and culture, but there wrong. Valuing diversity recognizes differences between people and acknowledges that these differences are a valued asset. Valuing diversity can be measured in three different levels which include cognitive, affective, and behavioral.

2. What is ethnocentrism? In what ways can ethnocentrism be detrimental to a society?

Ethnocentrism means preferencing and individual’s culture over the cultures of any other group. This is basically someone judging another culture just by the values and standards of one’s own culture. As far as why it is detrimental to a society it can make one be judgemental before knowing anything about that specific culture. We can not want to get to know them just because of that and this would be wrong. I feel this can cause a lot of hatred in anyones society.

3. Define emigration and immigration.

Emigration is when an individual leaves one country or region to settle in another. Immigration is when people move from one country to another and have the intentions of living there permanantly, working abd going to school and this would refer to immigeration and the people would be the immigrants.

4. What are some of the ways groups of people are identified?

There are four ways a group of people can be identified are race, ethnicity, religion and gender. Within these four groups there are five characteristics that they all share that make them fall into a minority group. Those five characteristics are unequal treatment, distinguishing physical or cultural traits, involuntary membership, awareness of subordination, and in-group marriage.

5. Why do people label and group other people?

People label and group other people in order to give then a distinct identity in the society. What I have noticed is that we all label everyhting that is how we been taught. The reason could also be because people who have little confience so they try to put other people in a lower class then themselves.

6. Define culture. Is culture limited to racial and ethnic backgrounds? Explain.

Culture- The quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is reguarded as excellence in arts, letters, manners, etc. Also the behaviors and beliefs of characteristics of a particular social culture depends on how one acts people from different nationality's act different ways based on their traditions including traditional foods, dances, customs.