Class 6 - week 3

I asked 3 co-workers their definitions of culture and diversity.  The following are their definitions:

1.        Culture – it means a person’s religion or their way of life.  The way that they were raised by their family and their values and beliefs.

Diversity – it means a variety of people or things.  It also could mean a various amount of opinions or genders/social/economic backgrounds.

2.        Culture – traditions, beliefs and expectations of a people.  People could be defined as a race, a nation, a family, or even a business.

Diversity - the comingling of different cultures, race, nationalities, traditions, beliefs.

3.        Culture-learned ways of acting, thinking.

Diversity – it is made up of non-stereotypical roles (non gender roles), a variety of socio-economical backgrounds, many types of employment, and many types of family composition and cultures

      
I think a lot of what I have been learning so far in this course is in the definitions I received from my co-workers.  For example, that culture is about their families as well as their values and beliefs.   I think anything has been omitted from what we are currently studying in this class. After seeing my co-workers definitions and thinking about mine, I realized our definitions are very similar.  I find it very interesting because we are from different backgrounds but we are all in the early childhood field.