Perspectives on Diversity and Culture

Person 1:

Culture:  Your beliefs and values.

Diversity: Many cultures in one area.

Person 2:

Culture: A variety of beliefs from different types of people.

Diversity:  How we all respect those beliefs in how we act and treat people.

Person 3:

Culture:  A person's beliefs, ethnicity, race and language.

Diversity:  The differences in those around us.

                The responses I got were pretty vague.  They do describe the basic ideas between culture and diversity, showing me that they are able to see the differences in other.  But, I do have to take into consideration that the three people I chose do not work with a diversity of children with different cultural backgrounds as I do on a daily basis.  These definitions describe surface culture.  They don’t go into detail about class, Religion, family relationships, work ethic or the role of children.