Equality, Diversity and Inclusion DIVERSITY Diversity literally means difference. Diversity recognises that though people have things in common with each other, they are also different and unique in many ways. Diversity is about recognising and valuing those differences. Diversity therefore consists of visible and non-visible factors, which include personal characteristics such as background, culture, personality and work-style in addition to the characteristics that are protected under discrimination legislation in terms of race, disability, gender, religion and belief, sexual orientation and age. By recognising and understanding our individual differences and embracing them, and moving beyond simple tolerance, we can create a productive environment in which everybody feels valued.
I believe that racism does operate like a web. An article to support this idea would be Michael O. Emerson’s “Race, Religion, and Color Line (Or Is That the Color Wall?)”. Emerson quoted, “Religion contributes to racial division and inequality, then, in that it increases racial categorization, which is a by-product of congregational segregation” (207). By growing up in a certain area, the majority of American citizens tend to carry out connections with the people they see and share the same beliefs with. It’s going to be hard to overcome this racial segregation if you have grown up with it, but it is something that can be
There are misconceptions about the use of race because all humans fall in the category of homosapiens. The general public most often use race in a naïve or simplistic way to categorize or differentiate people from one another. Many scholars and anthropologists have taken the position that the concept of race is a socially constructed ideologyu . In other words, society and all its people created this term to make practical distinctions among people of different traits, characteristics, and geographic ancestry. This is where racial stereotyping may occur as a result of this practice.
The best way of defining this is that, Systemic Inequality can be viewed as structural injustice. These inequalities evolve and change over time throughout the various social groups all over the world and are sometimes very difficult to overcome. I truly admire people who achieve success through overcoming the barriers that society has given them. Combining these theories within the educational system in the United States plays a huge role in the world we live in.
What are some of the ways groups of people are identified? There are several ways both good and bad that groups can be identified by such as race, culture, religion, class and ethnicity. These are the presets of which society is divided whether they like to admit or
In spite of this diversity, the media still misrepresents different races in many ways. One common way is through the use of racial stereotypes. Another way is the amounts of news coverage different stories receive. These are just two ways misrepresentation in the media occurs and there are several others. I believe as a democratic country it is important that the rights of minority groups are upheld.
Diversity Worksheet 1. What is diversity? Why is diversity valued? Diversity refers to human attribute that are different from your own, and from those of group to which you belong; also often used to refer to many demographic variables like race, religion, color, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, age, education, geographic origin, and skill characteristics. Diversity valued because each individual is unique.
The term racial group is reserved for minorities and the corresponding majorities that are socially set apart because of obvious physical differences. For example an obvious trait would be the color of one’s skin. A physical trait would be the presence of more body hair. The second group is an ethnic minority group. Ethnic minority groups are differentiated from the dominant group on the basis of cultural differences such as language, attitudes toward marriage, parenting, or food habits.
Native Americans are regarded as a racial group because of the fact that they have different physical features from the dominant white Anglo-Saxon physical features. A racial group based on the explanation of Joe and Clairece Feagin in their book Racial and Ethnic Relations is “a social group in which, persons inside and outside the group have decided is important to single out as inferior or superior, typically on the basis of real or alleged physical characteristics subjectively selected.” (Pg. 9), they also define
The professor stated that the development of different racial groups was due to the theory of genetic drift; we all originally started in the same location and spread outward. This theory got me thinking about how we form racial groups on a smaller scale and how complex it truly is. Race and ethnic group labels in America are not clearly based on criteria that everyone understand, agree with, and can easily see. As a result, someone else may label you in a way that you consider wrong and very offensive. This can instantly create an obstacle when trying to communicate even if the slur was unintended.