Divirsity Worksheet
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Diversity Worksheet
Doc ETH/125 2 August 2013
Answer each question in 50 to 150 words. Provide citations for all the sources you use.
1. What is diversity? Why is diversity valued? Diversity is; variety, multformaty, difference , or unlikeness and change, I believe that diversity is valued because, too much of one thing can be in fact too much. A person devoid of diversity would never feel challenged, nor would they ever see much less understand the world and all of it’s complexities, simply because they never would have known better, having been stripped from receiving any new information.
2. What is ethnocentrism? In what ways can ethnocentrism be detrimental to a society? The definition of ethnocentrisim ; is the belief in the intrinsic superiority of the nation, culture, or groups to which one belongs, often accompanied by feelings of dislike from other groups. Ethnocentrisim can be directly linked to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and the subsequent destruction of the buildings on September 11 2001, by a radical Muslim anti American terrorist group known as the Taliban. Another group of detrement to the United States, is th Neo Nazi skinhead movement they can be found online subverting our youth with their hate filled racist supremacist doctrines.
3. Define emigration and immigration. The words immigration and emigration are used often, but people can mistakes because they don’t know the true or correct useage of the word. The word immigration refers to a person entering a country while emmigration refers to a person leaving a country. Depending on the point of
Diversity Worksheet
Doc ETH/125 2 August 2013
Answer each question in 50 to 150 words. Provide citations for all the sources you use.
1. What is diversity? Why is diversity valued? Diversity is; variety, multformaty, difference , or unlikeness and change, I believe that diversity is valued because, too much of one thing can be in fact too much. A person devoid of diversity would never feel challenged, nor would they ever see much less understand the world and all of it’s complexities, simply because they never would have known better, having been stripped from receiving any new information.
2. What is ethnocentrism? In what ways can ethnocentrism be detrimental to a society? The definition of ethnocentrisim ; is the belief in the intrinsic superiority of the nation, culture, or groups to which one belongs, often accompanied by feelings of dislike from other groups. Ethnocentrisim can be directly linked to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and the subsequent destruction of the buildings on September 11 2001, by a radical Muslim anti American terrorist group known as the Taliban. Another group of detrement to the United States, is th Neo Nazi skinhead movement they can be found online subverting our youth with their hate filled racist supremacist doctrines.
3. Define emigration and immigration. The words immigration and emigration are used often, but people can mistakes because they don’t know the true or correct useage of the word. The word immigration refers to a person entering a country while emmigration refers to a person leaving a country. Depending on the point of