Sandra, Mexican American, describes culture as who a person is in the inside. It is everything that a person has learned from their parents and family. Diversity is what I am made up of. My Mexican heritage and traditions blended with my American traditions. .
Ana, from Bolivia moved to America one year ago to work as an Au pair. She describes culture as what she has learned from her mother, how to cook, clean and sew. Diversity as sharing her food, stories, religion and love with her new family and hopefully with a husband she has just joined a dating site.
Stephanie, from Hawaii. Proudly states that her people are proud of their believes, how they take care of each other. Diversity is sharing those believes.
Thinking about other people’s definitions of culture and diversity influenced my own thinking about these topics in a concerned way. Explaining its complexity comes with a great challenge.
What is evident from the responses is that these people felt their culture is what they learned from their family. It is so true, all of us have a deep connection to our families as they are the first teachers of right and wrong, of love, of patience, of food, all the behaviors we display. I too found this a bit challenging and I began to wonder why the simple questions seemed so intimidating for people.
ReplyDeleteI like what Sandra stated about culture being the person inside. Reading others definition and the ones I took myself, many believe it is what is around them. I have never heard someone mention culture being the person that is inside. I am seeing a new insight to culture. As we are surrounded in a culture, it truly does break down to what is inside and how we interpret what is around. Deep thought :) Great post.
ReplyDeleteUnlike those that you communicated with I did not have any resentments in getting responses, however, they seemed to think the same way or made us think differently about how we view our beliefs and ideas.
ReplyDeleteI too found the assignment to be a bit difficult as well. I had posted the question on Facebook thinking that I would get a bunch of response. However, I only got a few. I think that people tend to pass over when they see diversity. It is though the word frightens some.
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