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.