Week 3 blog assignment

For this assignment I interviewed my best friend, my sister and one of my co-workers. They are all from diverse backgrounds.

My friend explained culture as sex, race, religious etc. Her definition of diversity included food, dialect, and belief’s.

My sister previously held a position as a police officer. She defined diversity as differences. She said this could be differences in race, beliefs, academic background, environment growing up, economics, or even in character.

My first co-worker defined culture as the region in which you live, the type of food you eat and your style of clothes. Her definition of diversity is that of your temperament, education, possibly your strengths and weakness.

It was interesting to hear each person’s thoughts on what they felt diversity and culture included. Some of their answers were typical and what everyone would think. Such as the above the surface things; sex, religion, clothes etc. My sister seemed to have a much deeper understanding of culture as being everything about us is included in our culture.

Listening to others definition makes me want to explain what I have learned about the depths of what makes up our culture. It also makes me want to share my culture with them. It shows me how much more there is to learn about respecting the culture of others.