CULTURAL DIVERSITY

Lydda Lewis

Eth/ 125

July 21, 2013

1. What is diversity? Why is diversity valued?.

Diversity is the condition of having or being composed of differing elements, variety, especially the inclusion of different types of people (as people of different races or cultures) in a group or organization. (http://www.merriam-webster.com ) I think diversity is valued because it gives everyone the opportunity to being themselves and create groups or organizations to be with others who share the same interest. Diversity can create new ideas and changes that can be beneficial to a society, or even the world. Diversity is valued, because it has given our country its own unique strengths and flexibilities.

2. What is ethnocentrism? In what ways can ethnocentrism be detrimental to a society?
Ethnocentrism is judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one's own culture, and it is a general belief or tendency to favor one’s own ethnic or cultural group over all others. I think that ethnocentrism can be detrimental to a society in many ways; first it can make people judge before they actually know what is going on. We can think wrong of certain people and then we decide not to get to know them because we judged before we tried to get to know them. This can harm anyone and make us not like each other and create hate towards each other. It would be wrong, therefore, to automatically assume any form of ethnocentrism as having negative effects on society

3. Define emigration and immigration.
Emigration- leaving a country to settle in another country, a prime example of this is how people are crossing the border here in Texas to try to