What is your definition of culture?
Alyson: Culture is who you are, it’s how you grow up, stuff like religion, race, food. Everyone has some kind of culture.
Maggie: Culture is where you are from and all the things that go along with people from that place.
Anastasia: Culture is everything about you. It’s where you live, what you eat, where your family is from, the way you walk, talk, think, it’s even your sexual preferences.
What is your definition of diversity?
Alyson: Diversity is what makes us different. It’s kind of the same as culture, because everyone’s culture is different. We use diversity as a way to declare these differences.
Maggie: Being different from others based on culture.
Anastasia: Diversity is the difference between one person and another. We can share some of the same cultures and be diverse in other areas. For example, we are both black, which is apart of our culture, but I’m African American, and you are Jamaican American, which makes us diverse.
Alyson is a 27 year old, Caucasian Jewish woman who lives in Albany, New York. Maggie is a 65 year old Jamaican Christian who lives in Snellville, Georgia. Anastasia is a 23 year old African American Christian woman who lives in Dallas, Texas.
These ladies are all right about their definitions of both culture and diversity. some of their definitions may be a little more broad than mine, but I think Anastasia gave the answers that are closest to mine. We both have the same views on culture and diversity. We see that there are many different forms of culture and many different forms of diversity.
I really don’t think anything was left out between the three different perspectives on culture and diversity. Again, some of the perspectives were a little broad but still they shared a piece of the truth.
It was fun hearing different perspectives on culture and diversity. I think that Alyson and Maggie could use a little more knowledge on the topic. While they have the right idea, I ma not sure that they truly understand that both culture and diversity are so much more. Anastasia has a great view of culture and diversity.
Monique,
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your interviews and your views on culture and diversity. I think that we all have things to learn about people's culture if we want to understand their deep culture (Derman-Sparks, L & Edwards, J.O., 2010, p. 56). When I think about myself and those with whom I share work, we could do a better job of understanding people on a deeper level.
References
Derman-Sparks, L. & Edwards, J.O. (2010). Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and
Ourselves, pp. 55-60. Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of
Young Children.
I enjoyed reading the results of your interviews this week. I think Anastasia's definitions are the closest to my definitions as well. Of the three you interviewed, she seems to have the best interpretation of what culture and diversity really entail. This week helped me realize the diversity in peoples response to what they thought culture and diversity were. Thank you for sharing.
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