Perspectives on Diversity and Culture

I talked with about three different types of people: a Caucasian lady in her 40s, an African American Man in his 30s, and an African American lady in her 30s; because I wanted to get different point of views.

In the discussion of culture, I received answers like it’s a person’s background, ethnicity, sex preference, values and how a person was raised. I informed them that those answers are correct, but culture goes further than we have imagined or thought we knew. As we discussed diversity; they mentioned ages, races, sexual preference, religion beliefs, abortion, and many other common things that we would consider a diverse issue. One of them said diversity is just that, diversity because it means different.

As we were discussing it, we mentioned similar things in relation to both culture and diversity. It was an interesting conversation.  I learned different views from them concerning culture and they learned new things from me. I told them that our dialect and even the type of television we watch is considered culture all of them were surprised, but as we discussed it.  They could see how they could be considered culture. I have learned that the topics are so broad and this class has taught me so much more already.