Culture
Alicia: A group and their thought feelings and emotions about life and our society.
Charles: The way people do from background; example in india their culture before getting married is to buy gold and lof of things that different from others. In Africa some people don't wear shoes the day they wed.
Theresa: A set of behaviors generally accepted by the group in which they live or a society or group of people that form from different beliefs experiences or values.
Diversity
Alicia: The difference or being different
Charles: The different background of people; example black man from Africa
Theresa: Differences among people or differences of anything such as different types of motorcycles, different types of flowers, different types of houses, and different types of people etc.
My reflection
Which aspects of culture and diversity that I have studied in this course are included in the answers I received—and what are some examples? Theresa mentioned the difference between objects and people and Charles mentioned how different other countries are when it came to weddings. In chapter 5 it starts out with this statement, "The word culture refers to how particular groups of people live" (Derman-Sparks & Edwards, 2010, p.55). This one statement sums up what all my friends were saying.
Which aspects have been omitted—and what are some examples of such omission? They didn't mention gender, relationships, or children. Chapter 5 states, "Every day, in every action, we express our particular group culture and our individual relationship to our culture; nothing is more important within a culture than how its children are raised" (Derman-Sparks & Edwards, 2010, p.55).
In what ways has thinking about other people’s definitions of culture and diversity influenced my own thinking about these topics? I was surprised by their answers, these are well educated individuals, I wouldn't change my definition of culture based on theirs. I would take into consideration the different culture of India and Africa, I didn't know that about those cultures.
Reference
Derman-Sparks, L., & Edwards, J. O. (2010). Anti-bias education for young children and ourselves. Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
Hi Ayonie,
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting how diffrently we view culture and diversity. It goes to show how the framework our social identities are cdeeply connected with our cultural group experiences and beliefs. I see that there were no mention of gender among your participants either. That is very interesting.
Very interesting definitions for culture. I love how every person who is spoken to is able to come up with a slightly different definition to the terms culture and diversity. I think that it is important to take all of these ideas into consideration when formulating a definition of our own.
ReplyDeleteThe people you asked gave very interesting definitions. The culture definitions were precise, especially in regards to Africa and India. The Diversity definitions were different from what I would have expected to see. Alicia’s seemed very broad to me, but I got a couple o definitions like that too. It is a personal perspective.
ReplyDeleteI find it interesting that the responses to diversity are so often described as differences rather than uniqueness or just characteristics. To me, the word differences can have a negative reaction or response.
ReplyDeleteI think I liked the way people were able to give examples. Charles talked about wedding traditions that explained how people of different cultures conduct the marriage of two people. I liked how each people was able to give their own meaning of culture and diversity. It's interesting to get and idea of what people think.
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