Thursday, February 17, 2011
Chapter 5 question 1
Does valuing diversity come easily? Why or why not? Can you make some suggestions to enhance a group's ability to value diversity? Valuing diversity doesn't come easily usually people have a bias way of thinking and don't even realize that they do. Its not necessarily a bad thing but its just the way that people function. This might sound weird because the U.S. is so diverse but as we know it takes a while for different races, religion, and cultural groups to be truly accepted in society. People from the the U.S. are often very ethnocentric when it comes to things that we are not particularly familiar with. While people from other countries have their on views and bias opinions about Americans. While valuing diversity doesn't come easily in order for a group to enhance its diversity you have to stop judging people and talk to them and find out who they really are. I don't think its fair to ostracize someone or a group of people just because they are different.
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Hello....You brought up some interesting points in your post this week and it got me thinking. Valuing diversity definitely doesn't come easily to people if they are thinking a certain way and also if they havn't been around many diverse people. I've said before that people who go from a place where there is no diversity to one where there is many it causes them to become culture shocked but it the end it helps them. Like you wrote it is hard to think that someone in the U.S wouldn't value diversity considering that the U.S is extremely diverse but it does happen. But good job I enjoyed reading your post.
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