Eth 125 Week 2 Diversity Research Paper
Associate Program Material
Diversity Worksheet
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 being of a different race or culture. I believe it is valued because we all want to be different. We can learn so much from someone else.
2. What is ethnocentrism? In what ways can ethnocentrism be detrimental to a society? Ethnocentrism is when we believe that your own ethnic or cultural group is all that matters. This can be detrimental to society because if only think that what we say or believe is all that’s out there than eventually one day there will be no one here for you. We have to expand ourselves.
3. Define emigration and immigration. Emigration is when someone leaves a country to settle somewhere else legally such as get a passport go through all necessary rules and regulations. Immigration is when someone comes to another country illegally. Such as coming across the Mexican Border without proper paper work. …show more content…
What are some of the ways groups of people are identified? We tend to group people by race, gender, religion, and ethnicity
5. Why do people label and group other people? We label and group other people because that’s what we are taught to do. From birth we are taught to be put people in a different category if the person is a Christian or if the person has a different skin color than you.
6. Define culture. Is culture limited to racial and ethnic backgrounds? Explain. Culture is presence of the same characteristics of a group of people. You know specific values and traditions. I don’t believe that culture is limited to race because not everyone of the a particular race believes the
Diversity Worksheet
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 being of a different race or culture. I believe it is valued because we all want to be different. We can learn so much from someone else.
2. What is ethnocentrism? In what ways can ethnocentrism be detrimental to a society? Ethnocentrism is when we believe that your own ethnic or cultural group is all that matters. This can be detrimental to society because if only think that what we say or believe is all that’s out there than eventually one day there will be no one here for you. We have to expand ourselves.
3. Define emigration and immigration. Emigration is when someone leaves a country to settle somewhere else legally such as get a passport go through all necessary rules and regulations. Immigration is when someone comes to another country illegally. Such as coming across the Mexican Border without proper paper work. …show more content…
What are some of the ways groups of people are identified? We tend to group people by race, gender, religion, and ethnicity
5. Why do people label and group other people? We label and group other people because that’s what we are taught to do. From birth we are taught to be put people in a different category if the person is a Christian or if the person has a different skin color than you.
6. Define culture. Is culture limited to racial and ethnic backgrounds? Explain. Culture is presence of the same characteristics of a group of people. You know specific values and traditions. I don’t believe that culture is limited to race because not everyone of the a particular race believes the