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Cultural
diversity
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WHY
C U LT U RA L
DIVERSITY
M ATT E R S
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Let’s define
culture.
Culture is our ‘way
of being’
Common language,
beliefs, principles,
etc are part of
culture
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What does it mean to be ‘culturally diverse’?
of the abundant for the the validity of what other the contribution people to rather than just
diversity of differences different cultural cultures offer of diverse strengthen tolerating the
cultures expressions groups themselves and difference
others
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1. Diversity prepares
students for future
career success.
• The workforce is more diverse now than
any time in history.
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2. Diversity prepares
students to work in
a global society.
• No matter what profession you enter, you
will find yourself working with people
from diverse backgrounds-worldwide.
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3. Interactions with
people different
from ourselves
increases our
knowledge base.
• Research shows that we learn more from
people that are different for us, rather
than we do from people who are similar
to us.
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4. Diversity makes
us better at solving
problems.
• Life brings many problems, and will
continue to work that way.
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5. Diversity
promotes creative
thinking.
• Diversity expands your capacity for
viewing issues from multiple perspectives.
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6. Diversity enhances
self-awareness.
• Learning from people whose backgrounds
differ from your own sharpens your self
knowledge by allowing you to compare
and contrast.
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How do we
preserve cultural
diversity?
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Embracing diversity starts
with self-awareness
• Cultural messages are deeply ingrained in us, and affects our actions and
thoughts.
• People with weaker self-awareness are prone to fall into common stereotypes.
• This way, people will be proud of their culture and want to learn more of it.
• Recognizing the importance of unique cultures will make families eager to pass
those cultural differences to their future generations.
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Identify and Overcome
your biases and
prejudices.
• Our nature is to surround ourselves with people from the same background,
and we have a deep need to feel included.
• Society has also ingrained some racial and cultural biases inside us.
• Exposing ourselves to other culture will let us identify our own bias early on
and work on overcoming it to become a more open-minded person.
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C O N C LU S I O N
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