Diversity

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 can be defind as “ to refer to many demographic variables, including, but not limited to, race, religion, color, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, age, education, geographic origin, and skill characteristics..” (u.s department) Diversity is valued because things would not be they way it is today if we did not have it. It make everyone different.

2. What is ethnocentrism? In what ways can ethnocentrism be detrimental to a society?

Ethnocntrism can be defined as “the preferencing of an individual’s culture over the cultures of any other group.(wisegeek)” Ways that ethnocentrism can be determed in society is by the way that someone looks, or dresses. It can so be determed my the way they do things or the food that they cook. We know this day and time that we all judge people in these ways and make them stand out.

3. Define emigration and immigration.

Immigration can define as have citizenship in another country but going to another country to live permanent (Immigration). Immigration is also where you once lived some where then moved to the other country to live. Emigration is almost the same thing, but it is not living in the coutry permanent. These two words are the most missed used words. (immigration)

4. What are some of the ways groups of people are identified?

Some ways that groups of people could be identified is facial features, the way they carry them self. They ways a person dresses. You have different groups of people in this world skin color is a big way that we tell people apart. A lot of people put different color is group weather they belong to that group or not.

5. Why do people label and group other people?

I think that people lable other groups and other people because they see them as being different. Some don t...