June 20‚ 2011 Linguistic Diversity All children deserve an early childhood program or education that recognizes and respects their family‚ community‚ and linguistic diversity. In this nation‚ there are children of all ethnic and cultural backgrounds. “For young children to develop and learn optimally‚ the early childhood professional must be prepared to meet their diverse developmental‚ cultural‚ linguistic‚ and educational needs. Early childhood educators face the challenge of how best
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Culture is a "learned system of knowledge‚ behaviors‚ attitudes‚ beliefs‚ values‚ and norms that is shared by a group of people (Smith‚ 1966 as cited in Building our understanding‚ n. d.). Cultural diversity comprises the uniqueness of each group. Hispanics in the United States consists of groups with nationalities that include (a) Cuban‚ (b) Mexican‚ (c) Puerto Rican‚ (d) South or Central American‚ or other Spanish culture or origin‚ regardless of race.. People who identify their origin as Spanish
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Two ethical issues can be derived from Case 1; these include respect for Cultural Diversity and Pluralism‚ and Social Responsibility and Health. In a globalized world‚ calling for the respect of cultural diversity and appreciation of pluralism is a bit controversial. Every culture includes members who abide by their practices and norms to a lesser or a greater extent‚ and most people may have intersecting cultural identities. These people may be from an ethnic minority that exists within a spiritual
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Why is an understanding of cultural differences important to the business managers at BreadTalk? To assist the managers at BreadTalk to decide if they should expand to Australia‚ briefly describe the Australian culture. A wide range of definitions have been used for the term “culture.” Culture has been defined as the human-made part of the environment (Herkovits‚ 1955)‚ including both objective and subjective elements (Triandis‚ 1972); as a set of reinforcements (Skinner‚ 1981); as the collective
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Islam‚ Christianity‚ Judaism and Cultural Diversity Alicia Lue Devry University Course Number: SOCS350 July 2013 Islam‚ Christianity‚ Judaism and Cultural Diversity Religion has always been and will be one of the major influences that shape our world. The three major Western religions of the world are Christianity‚ Islam and Judaism. Christianity is said to be the largest with an estimated two billion followers and Islam the second largest with 1.5 billion followers (Ali-Karamali‚ 2008). These three
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In the article of cultural diversity and how it impacts interaction process and performance of groups. Watson‚ who is the author of the writing‚ uses lots of rhetorical skills to support his arguments on how important it is to have culturally diverse group in tasks. He used mostly logical ways to appeals his idea throughout the paragraphs by stating some logical statement and also providing charts of research. First of all‚ Warren E. Watson is a man who study and research in University of North
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world over the past decades‚ and wonder how cultural diversity has been such a huge part of it. Looking back at how it all started with the differences of people acting by the way of eachother different tone of skin color or how wealthy the person can be‚ or even the location a family lives can affect all of cutural diversity. Also‚ how different countries were treated and disrespected in the assimilating experiences people had in the past. Cultural diversity could be more in an advantage by the way
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As a result of the increasing cultural contact a number of traditional practices‚ whole ways of life and worldviews disappear. Special fishing techniques of the Inuit are forgotten and it is estimated that just 10% of over 6.500 languages spoken today will survive. At the same time globality leads to the emergence of new cultural forms - a process that was coined by writers as "the periphery talks back" and points out that everywhere cultural traditions mix and create new practices and worldviews
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Swedish-American Cultural diversity is what defines humanity. This diversity is directly correlated to the geographic site of the civilization: for example‚ Sweden. The Swedish are located in the upper latitudes of the northern hemisphere‚ a climate zone known for its harsh winters‚ short growing seasons and the Viking heritage. Due to this geography‚ the people of Sweden‚ who originated from nomadic tribes migrating from Germany‚ developed in a similar manner to the other civilizations of Europe
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Renee Harden EDU-230- Cultural Diversity in the Classroom July 28‚ 2013 Brian Clark‚ Instructor Week Five Journal Multicultural education is a plan or an approach‚ a scholastic improvement program‚ and a course of action. It integrates the conception that all scholars‚ despite of their race‚ ethnicity‚ and their cultural background‚ shall be allowed the same chance to learn in school. It is a transformation change to bring about a number of important differences in schools‚ and additional
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