- Culture basically defines a people and distinguishes them as a group from others. This would include their beliefs, language, and attitudes. Diversity is when people of different cultures come together, or grouped together for a common goal such as an institution for learning, work organisation, also church.
- Culture is the way of life of a particular people, it is everything, what they eat, drink, dress, music, everything. Diversity is just a mix of cultures in one place so it can be board or narrow. Example Guyana has a broad cultural diversity because they have black, white, Chinese, Indian, etc. in their country, whereas in Barbados diversity is lower because there is 90% black then everyone else.
- Culture is what we do an how we do it, the stories told, the way individuals do things. Diversity is just varying way of doing things. Multiformity.
The persons I asked included mostly surface culture such as language, race, food, music, dress etc. Few mentioned the deep culture such as the way we do things, what we believe in and how we think things should happen. This has shown me that the deep culture is overlooked and sometimes not considered to be a part of an individual's culture.
It is imperative that we teach children how to dig beneath the surface of a person. If we teach them this they will have much more meaningful relationships.
ReplyDeleteAs I focused on digging deeper this week I came to realize that truly the answer is knowing how to ask questions in an attempt to explore beneath the surface of a person.
Kiendra,
ReplyDeleteI also found that people I spoke to had a surface understanding of culture, for myself I found that no one placed the influences of language, food or our day to day customs has having a part in culture. I am finding that some may see culture as a more abstract concept rather than a concrete idea with real implications in our day to day lives.