I spoke with my best friend, who is Baptist in her religion.
She believes culture is what we are as people and diversity is limited to our
community. She thinks culture is what we have learned from our parents about
what not to do and what to do. She defines diversity as the different types of
people and races that lives in your community.
I spoke with my great-aunt who is 72. My aunt defines
culture and diversity as it relates to race only. She doesn’t classify or see
any differences as far as race, class, religion or any of classification is
concerned. She feels that culture is your race. As a race, we are all united
and classified under that one race. All blacks do this….. All white people do
this…… all Hispanic people do this……
I also spoke with my uncle who lives a High class life in
Washington DC- My uncle has been very fortunate. He is single, educated and has
a very good job in Washington. He lives in a posh area of Washington and owns a
high price home and drives high priced cars. He states that culture is what we
surround and immerse ourselves in. That yes, we grow up in a particular culture
and learn certain values from our family. However, once we are on our own, it
is up to us to enhance our knowledge and create new cultural values within
ourselves. Diversity is anything that is different. Diversity is not just race
but can be foods, communities, cars, homes and etc. Diverse means a lot of
different things to choose from or ways to look at things.
I think my friend’s definition was more along the lines of
cultural diversity. Values and other ideas that we learn from our family is
very cultural. Many of the learned behaviors or lessons learned have been
passed down through generations.
I feel as though dominate culture was omitted. Dominant
culture was a word that was new to me as well. Therefore, I didn’t think anyone
would mention this as I spoke to them.
From hearing from other people, this just supported what I
already knew. There are going to be many different definitions of culture and
diversity. People are diverse in their culture; therefore, people are going to
be diverse in the definitions and answers that they give based on their
cultural experiences.
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