Culture and Diversity

Their definition of culture

One friend said culture is about how people live and do things in their specific ways. Another friend said culture is the language, food, history about the family, and what kinds of lives they live. The last friend said culture is about children’s education, how they are raised by their parents, and their own traditions and customs and the holidays they celebrate.

Their definition of diversity

The first friend said diversity is about differences between people coming from different places. They might speak different languages and eat different food. The second friend mentioned diversity as people’s different races, their languages, and their different ways to doing things. The last friend thought diversity is also about different language, food, and values.

The aspects of culture and diversity that I have studied in this course are included as they all mention languages, food, and ways of doing things. These are mainly the surface culture. Only one friend mentioned about people’s values could be different with diversity, and it belonged to deep culture that I have studied in this course. By asking people’s definition about culture and diversity, I found out that the way people perceive with these topics are still basic and on the surface. As an early childhood educator, I need to dig deeper into my families’ culture and find out their deep culture so that I can better support their children in learning their own cultures and diversity. 

Week 2 blog post

If my family and I were to move to another country permanently, I would choose first a dictionary from my own language to the second language because to preserve my home language in both reading, writing and speaking is one way to preserve our own culture. The second item I would choose is a book about my own country’s history as we need to keep in mind of our own history so that we know who we are. The last thing I would choose is also a book about dishes in my culture, because food is an important of culture.

I would explain to others that the dictionary is to make sure that I won’t forget my own language because my home language is my culture. My country’s history and food are very important in preserving my culture so that’s why I chose these two books.

If I could only keep one personal items upon arrival to the new country, I would be very sad and anxious because giving away any of these items would feel like giving up my own culture. I would be panic and didn’t know which one to keep because all three items meant so much to me as my culture.

Culture is very important to everyone. To be asked to give up your own culture is painful. As a result, early childhood educators should support families in preserving their own cultures because culture is valuable and priceless.