Challenges & Benefits of Cultural Diversity 1 Challenges of Diversity • Communication Barriers • Resistance to Change • Socio-cultural Factors • Education‚ age‚ and gender • Personality and Background 2 Communication Barriers • Ineffective communication of key objectives results in confusion‚ lack of teamwork and low morale. ! • Age‚ gender and culture influence the messages sent and received. • Barriers to communication are factors that block or significantly destroy successful communication
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Cosmopolitans and locals "If there were only locals in the world‚ world culture would be no more than the sum of its separate parts". Hannerz 1990:249 Ulf Hannerz (1990) argues that the world culture is created through the increasing interconnectedness of varied local cultures where people connect in different ways. He uses Robert Merton’s cosmopolitan-local distinctions in a global context‚ to describe how people identify themselves with the global or not. The term `cosmopolitan’ is often used
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Response Paper on Kira-Kara Summary Cynthia Kadohata ’s book‚ Kira-Kira‚ is a story about an American-Japanese family during the mid-1950 ’s who struggle to save money to buy a home. The story begins in Iowa where the family lives and owns a small Asian grocery store. The parents are American born‚ educated in Japan and still hold some Japanese traditional qualities. Conflict is introduced when they move to Georgia to work in a poultry factory after their family store fails to be profitable
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Cultural and Linguistic Differences Cultural and Linguistic Differences Shabana P. Siddiqui ECE 405: Children and Families in a Diverse Society Inst. Lammert-Arndt 6/14/12 Linguistic Differences 01 People from all walks of life have gathered in the United States to live their lives. What follows is a flood of cultural and linguistic differences. The way one person from a particular culture would say” hi” could be another
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Culture Assimilation 1) Definition of the topic: In the article The Importance of ’Community ’ in the Process of Immigrant Assimilation." International Migration Review by Joseph P. Fitzpatrick it explains how there is two steps to assimilating which are‚ cultural assimilation and social assimilation. It defines cultural assimilation as “adapting to values‚ norms‚ and expectations” (6). Immigrants change their personal beliefs and adapt to a new lifestyle. After culturally assimilating it says
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Globalization shouldn’t shape identity because many people would start to speak the same language. This could be a big problem because if we lose many different languages then we would lose a part of our history/ heritage. An example of this would be‚ if the French culture stopped speaking French and started speaking English only then the French language would “die out”. Eventually no one would be able to speak French or even read it. Therefore we would lose whatever historic things we had in French
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Strategic plans are critical but once established‚ how does one establish integrated processes and functions across a multicultural organization? Provide at least one example in your initial response: An organization’s survival in a competitive business world depends on its strategic plans and how those plans relate to the business world. Having a good strategic plan is good but it’s not enough to stir an organization to success and thus profitability. The implementation of such plans is not without
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Some people prefer to live in a small town and others like to live in a big city. In my opinion‚ I would prefer to live in a big city because living in a big city has more advantages than living in a small town. Living in a big city is more convenient because in a big city there are many facilities for living‚ recreation‚ and health care. For instance‚ a big city usually has an integrated transportation infrastructure connecting all areas of the city. As a result‚ people living in a big city
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What is the relevance of practicing cultural humility in the field of counseling? The relevance of practicing cultural humility in the field of counseling is that this practice builds trust in the counselor–client relationship‚ rather than the tearing down or stereotyping of that or other cultures. In helping professions it is mandatory to consider the needs of the client as well as factors that influence the client’s needs or communication of needs. By practicing cultural humility in the field
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Write a 1‚400- to 1‚750-word paper that answers the following questions: What information about diversity in the United States has helped you better understand or relate to others in ways that you may not have in the past? * The United States is a melting pot of many cultures‚ races and ethnicities. I have learned that each group has differences and many similarities. With these differences they have taught me to be tolerant and accepting of them. By embracing the differences through our diverse
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