Diversity Worksheet, Questions And Answers

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 the state of having people who are of different races or who have different cultures in a group or organization.” (Citations: "Diversity." Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 24 July 2014. .) There are a few reasons as to why diversity is valued for starters it means that we are unique and have different ways of living. There are always things to learn from those that are different than we are to learning things about their culture to their skills that they know.

2. What is ethnocentrism? In what ways can ethnocentrism…show more content…
Define emigration and immigration.
Emigration is when someone leaves their own country or region willingly or not to settle in another country to permanently live there. Immigration is movement of a group of people that settle in another country or area that they are not native to. The only difference between these to terms is from the perspective of the country of origin.

4. What are some of the ways groups of people are identified?
There are a few ways that groups of people can be identified: gender, ethnicity, religion and race.
People can identified by being either male or female. The ethnic grouping that are around are Muslims, Buddhism, Christianity, and Jehovah’s Witnesses as well as others that I do not know of.

5. Why do people label and group other people?
There are a lot of reasons as to why people label and group other people. For starters people have a tendency to label anything that is different from what they are not used to. Other reasons include behaviors learned from their parents, social groupings or even from what they have learned from their own experiences in dealings with others from different cultures or beliefs.

6. Define culture. Is culture limited to racial and ethnic backgrounds?