Perspectives on Diversity and Culture

After contacting several people and asking them what their definition of culture and diversity was, this was their responses...

Culture…

• the things that make up your life as a group, such as music, food, art likes/dislikes, holidays, and the particular way you celebrate those holidays, the way you raise your kids and how you treat elders.
• I think culture is when people, generally of a common area, share like values, beliefs, customs, moral values, food preferences etc. Although everyone doesn't necessarily have to believe or think exactly the same, but there are common ties that bind them together.
• is how you think, feel and at times what you believe in based upon your environment.

Diversity…

• all the different ways those items from culture are displayed. How vastly different one group of people enjoy -live life
• how vastly different one group of people enjoy-live life versus another group.
• is the differences in people. The differences in thought, preferences, race, beliefs, moral values, customs. Diversity can be within a culture or trans-cultural.

I was amazed that most of their answers were related to culture and diversity.  One way that influenced my thinking about culture and diversity is the way one of the answers were stated, "How vastly different one group of people enjoy-live life."  This is how most of use should be doing with our lives. ENJOY-LIVE LIFE!

My Family Culture

My family means everything to me so trying to imagine what I would take with me was a hard decision for me to make.  The first thing I would take is my bible, because if a catastrophic event happened my faith would need to be built back up and I know that God would always be with me where ever I am.  The second thing to show others about my family would be a family photo album to look back and remember all the good times.  The third thing would be my notebook full of how to make anything out of everything, because if I had to start all over I would have to learn how to wash my clothes, grow food, and how to make drinking water.  If this happen I would be scared of what would come next and figure out how to survive.  It is not hard to tell others about your family and we would all have to work together if we were all going to survive.  I have learned over the years after becoming a teenage mother how to make things in order to save money and that is one major thing I have taught my children to do.