Associate Program Material

Diversity Worksheet

Answer each question in 50 to 150 words. Provide citations for all the sources you use.

1. What is diversity? Why is diversity valued?

According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary (n.d.), Diversity means “the condition of having or being composed of differing elements”. Diversity in this day in time is valued simply because it brings different skills, education levels, cultures, and races. Being able to incorporate the different diversities into everyday life not only helps you become more knowledgable in something you may not have known and helps people look at stuff from a different perspective.

2. What is ethnocentrism? In what ways can ethnocentrism be detrimental to a society?

According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary (n.d.), Ethnocentrism is “characterized by or based on the attitude that one's own group is superior”. Feeling that your beliefs are more superior to anothers can lead to anger, rescentment and mayhem. For instance skinheads depending on what area of the world you live, believed in racism and joined the White Nationalist National Front. These are the ones that started racially motivated violence. For a while after that every racially motivated crime was labeled as being done by “skinheads”.

3. Define emigration and immigration.

According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary (n.d.), Emigration means “to leave one's place of residence or country to live elsewhere”. For example that my grandmother emigrated from Greece to the United States of America. It is my understanding that emigration is a term used from your country or origin. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary (n.d.), Immigration means “to enter and usually become established; especially : to come into a country of which one is not a native for permanent residence”. It is my understanding the immigration is described as long term permanent residence.

4. What are some of the ways groups of people are identified?

Groups of people can be best identified by their religion, ethnicity, race, and gender. For example each person who believes in the orthodox religion would fall under one group. But that group would also have subgroups because there are Greek Orthodox and Russion Orthodox. Obviously under the gender category there are only male and female groups. Your ethnicity could be American, Asian, Hispanic/Latino, or African American. You could then segregate males and females by their ethnicity, race and religion. Then