UNDERSTANDING DIVERSITY Defining DIVERSITY Definitions of diversity range from distributive concerns based on the traditional categories of race‚ ethnicity and gender to the inclusion of a vast array of differences in age‚ sexual orientation‚ disability‚ employment status‚ tenure‚ function‚ educational background‚ lifestyle‚ religion‚ values and beliefs in addition to race‚ ethnicity and gender. In the recent CIPD report‚ Diversity: Stacking up the evidence (Anderson and Metcalf 2003)
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promote Inclusion‚ Equality and Diversity within your current/future learners. Identify other points of referral available to meet the potential needs of learners. * Inclusion means involving all learners and treating them equally and fairly‚ without directly or indirectly excluding anybody * Equality is the enjoyment of equal rights by all‚ each individual being regarded as of the same importance and receiving the same treatment. * Diversity is valuing the individual differences in
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Cultural diversity in the Mediterranean I 1- Culture and identity: Cultural identity as a construct: Identitas (lat. = the same): Nature is the same and it evolves at the same time Being and becoming Meaning and experience Social constructionim: “It is concerned with showing how members of a group go about constructing a world of common experience” (David L. Preston) Internalized attitudes and behaviors The Big Other (Lacan and Zizek): “ The [Big Other] is
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Importance of Understanding Cultural‚ Ethnic‚ and Gender Differences by Managers and Professionals in a Business Setting Shazia T. Ansari January 11‚ 2015 SOCS-350N Prof. Damasiewicz Culture is defined “as a set of values‚ practices‚ traditions or beliefs a group shares‚ whether due to age‚ race or ethnicity‚ religion or gender” (Mayhew‚ 2014). Diversity is “the inclusion of individuals representing more than one national origin‚ color‚ religion‚ socioeconomic stratum‚ sexual orientation”
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Susan Kennedy Grand Canyon University Nursing 502 September 22‚ 2010 > Cultural diversity is a concept that is of increasing importance in the delivery of quality health care. It is this cultural awareness that allows healthcare professionals to see the entire picture of the patient and thus improves quality of care and healthcare outcomes The cultural values of specific ethnic groups have a direct influence on how they perceive healthcare‚ how and when they seek healthcare and how
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Write a 1‚400- to 1‚750-word paper that answers the following questions: What information about diversity in the United States has helped you better understand or relate to others in ways that you may not have in the past? * The United States is a melting pot of many cultures‚ races and ethnicities. I have learned that each group has differences and many similarities. With these differences they have taught me to be tolerant and accepting of them. By embracing the differences through our diverse
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Cultural Diversity: Campus Climates and Classroom Instruction American Society has been and continues to become increasingly mixed‚ complex‚ and variegated in its cultural practices and ethnic make up. However‚ the state schools have fallen short of race goals established thirty-one years ago in a desegregation case now known as Geier v. Sundquist. The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has notoriously had one of the worst recruiting efforts for diversifying undergraduates. This realization
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reasons many people embrace Cultural diversity 1. They value diversity 2. They think cultural imperialism is bad 3. They believe that cultural Relativism will preserve the integrity of diverse cultures from the threat of cultural imperialism. Does cultural Relativism offer a basis for promoting tolerance of cultural differences and opposing cultural imperialism? Every society has to set a rule when it is acceptable to kill some members. 5 claims of cultural relativism 1. Different
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States has always been the “melting pot” of various racial and ethnic groups. In spite of the sides of our history where each group experienced prejudice and discrimination on different levels past and present‚ our nation is still rich with cultural diversity. From this I have learned a lot over the last nine weeks about my culture‚ other cultures‚ and the possible future if all of us come together to become a more pluralistic society. I began to understand the classification of subordinate groups
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Cultural diversity is a shared way of life of a number of people who have common knowledge of values‚ morals‚ beliefs or behaviors. In culture knowledge can be derived from experiences‚ attitudes‚ religion‚ different roles or skills. In cultural diversity there is a sense of behavior that has been learned from experiences or patterns passed through communication from one generation to the next. Sub-Culture is group within or smaller than a cultural group which has people of different ethnic background
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