Wednesday, July 23, 2014

More definitions from my friends from Zimbabwe

Please see below. Hope this helps.

Culture
Culture is a set of values that people use to express their behavior. Culture is a result of an accumulation of knowledge and that body of knowledge influences the decisions people make. Culture forms the basis and reference point for everyday life. Culture is dynamic and mutable, meaning what I know and base my life's values might be different from my parents. Culture also varies across geographic regions because the way of life is different.

Diversity
Diversity means having differences in all aspects of life and true diversity involves accepting all of those differences. Diversity enriches everyone's experiences and can sometimes challenge individuals to step out of their comfort zones and embrace changes / differences and not base their opinions of anything different sorely on stereotypes. 

Culture is made up of behaviors and beliefs that are characteristic of a particular social or ethnic group. It is shared and learned from human day- to- day living patterns. These patterns and models pervade all aspects of human social interaction. Culture is people's primary adaptive mechanism for example in Africa storytelling is an important part of the culture because storytelling is societies' tool of education since schools are not accessible to everyone. Storytelling also shows the desires and fears of a different groups and is a way for those groups to show their uniqueness for ex. beliefs around love, marriage, and death.

Diversity would include openness to differences among people, cultures and perspectives. Having a multitude of people from different backgrounds and cultures together in the same environment working for the same goals. Diversity goes beyond race however having people of different race in a society, organization, group is usually a good reflection of how open to diversity that group is.  

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