Cultural Differences Between Their Own Country And Throughout The World

The benefits of promoting and valuing cultural diversity within a school setting is extremely important as children and young people will learn to understand all the different cultures and respect them. Learning about different cultures and religions helps a young mind broaden and see that no matter what culture, race or ethnicity another person is they still have equal rights and opportunities and can achieve the same goals as each other. For example, many people see all Indian/Pakistani adults as doctors, this is a common form of stereotyping and if an English child is lead to believe that this is only the case then they may not want to follow that career path due to feeling that they are not allowed. Within my setting we promote cultural diversity within our resources, this means that when we show our pupils books or home-made resources to help assist them with their learning we always try to ensure that all ethnic backgrounds and abilities are shown

In order to provide a safe and inviting classroom environment, students must be valued, appreciated, and respected. Promoting diversity in the classroom allows students to explore different languages, experiences, ethnic differences and the cultural perspectives of their classmates. Developing this type of environment is equally as important as the classroom standard, and is often seen in schools with an increased bilingual population. The school where I am currently working has a high Hispanic bilingual population, and proves to me how diversity in the classroom can still breed success.

Within colleges and universities, having a culturally diverse class will enlighten students on the history of their culture. If students was aware and

When it comes to cultural diversity in schools, a lot of issues have the potential to come up. Currently, I feel that I am somewhat competent of the cultural diversity that exists in the world, but I have a lot more to learn. Some important things to consider when working with diverse populations are the morals and values that specific cultures hold and how they differ from what I know and live by. Becoming more aware of other cultures will help me be able to work with everyone no matter what culture they identify with. One thing that I think students will benefit from in schools is having a group to identify with whether is may be a culturally diverse group of people from many different places or a group solely for a specific culture. With these groups, we can help educate all students in the school to help them become more aware of their peers and help create a healthier and more accepting environment.

The United States population is growing from the diversity of cultures and the future depends on jobs such as doctors and nurses to be filled with diverse candidates to meet the demand (HRSA). There is also big need for teachers who are culturally competent or can instruct students from all cultures so that all students will succeed. This begs the question to what is culture and how it affects learning. According to NEA, culture is the defining notion of who a person is and how they fit into society. There are so many aspects to culture but that should not hinder a teacher from trying to understand what makes a student who they are. For teachers, there is a constant learning to “become culturally competent over time”(NEA). What better to learn from peers who are more culturally diverse than yourself. In the studies from Luquis, Perez and Young, there is a demand for faculty to be more diverse. I believe that more diversity would greater help students because I could ask for advice from another faculty member about a student with the same or similar culture about how to help them succeed in class.

The theory of cultural differences revolves around 7 concepts, Individual and Collective Orientation, High- and Low-Context Cultures, Power distance, Masculine and Feminine Cultures, High-Ambiguity-Tolerant and Low-Ambiguity-Tolerant Cultures, Long- and Short-Term Orientation, and Indulgence and restraints.

In every culture, people work diligently to find a common ground for acceptance and tolerance. Typically, people are accepting of various social criteria that are oftentimes associated with a specific ethnicity. However, many individuals simply tolerate the beliefs, standards, values, and behaviors of other individuals in society while inwardly opposed to the model of the displayed behaviors of other individuals as it relates to another individuals beliefs, value systems, and other variables that influence how an individual functions in society.

Cultural differences could be a problem, because different people have different beliefs, Traditions etc. they differ between countries, in religious societies, and people. For example, in Asia, they believe that giving eye contact to the elders is rude, they see it as a sign of disrespect. Therefore the traditions in Asia is, when the elders are speaking to the younger people, they must lower their gaze. Although it’s a tradition, people from other countries have to respect it. A lot of people, in the modern world, criticise these traditions. Another barrier, that occurs under cultural differences is that, maybe the person you are talking to does not speak English, or maybe they are confused and lost in translation, whilst you are talking, this can be a very serious situation, for example, if you have to tell somebody who does not understand your language, you may email them, and due to language differences they may read words like "thanks" as an offensive word in their native tongue, in order to overcome this problem it is advisable that you use a professional translator, such as google translate or through an online website, this is if it is working on a computer, and if its face to face method, then you can find someone who can speak multiple languages to come with you whilst you’re telling the person that doesn't speak English what to do.

Learning, and understanding why and how different cultures live, is something that can benefit anyone socially because it can help foster understanding, break down social barriers, and introduces new or different ways of doing things.

In modern society, there is no obvious difference in everyday’s life, but my life has changed a lot since I came to America. So today I want to compare the differences between eastern and western cultures simply by my own experience, and for your better understanding, I will set examples of China and America.

On June 30, 2017, I interviewed my grandmother Nancy Fabrizi to talk about some cultural differences she faced when coming over from Abrizzi, Italy in 1949. I chose to interview my grandmother because she came to North America when she was only 14 years old and she came during a time where there were many cultural differences between Italy and North America. Nancy and her uncle decided to start fresh and travel to Canada from Italy on a ship to hopefully have a better way of living. Little did Nancy know that it would be one of the hardest transitions she would ever have to go through. In my interview, I asked her some questions about things she experienced, such as culture shock, reentry shock, stumbling blocks, and differences in cultural values and styles.

Abstract For firms in the international market the cultural characteristics of host country societies, where their managers are going to deal and work, must be learned, absorbed and adopted. A person’s perception of market needs is framed by his or her own cultural experience. More than factual knowledge of Chinese culture the interpretative knowledge is very important and difficult, since it comes from a matrix of philosophic, religion and political explanations which are completely different of the western one. Chinese “guanxi”, emphasizes personal trust building, the use of social bonds in dealing with partners,

One can gain experiences by acknowledging and understanding social and cultural differences throughout the world. Travel helps enlighten these aspects along with humanitarian efforts. Tourism provides insight to economic standings of various cultures. Through tourism society can “promote peace and understanding between peoples.” (…)

In America, past and present, we are faced with many challenges pertaining to diversity. Diversity is defined as the presence of human beings with perceived or actual differences based on a variety of human characteristics (Koppelman 2014). A challenge of diversity faced is on American Education. Education is most important because our future society depends on it and if we did not have it our future would most certainly fail. Learning and schooling is critical for everyone to gain knowledge and continue leading our diverse society forward into the right direction. Since diversity is a common issue relating to students who have gone through these situations there have been many intense debates and legal cases (Dey 2008). Education in America needs to have more pluralism, where all diverse groups can have the same mutual respect. Pluralism is the equal coexistence of diverse cultures, institutions, and/or individuals within mutually supportive relationship within the boundaries of one nation (Koppelman 2009). In a pluralistic society all the groups in the society should be taught about each other’s diverse cultures, historical events, and so on in school so it can all be fair. Some parents and teachers felt that there were no benefits for the students to learn about multicultural education (Koppelman 2009). There are so many things that can be done to correct the challenge of diversity to American education and so many reasons why there are challenges in

In the case that Professor Zhao gave us we can see clearly that Mr. Moto met with a lot of serious problems in an intercultural negotiation. And all these problems had a bad influence on the international connect. The case also has left us two questions. The first is that whether the different between high context culture and low context culture is that important and whether the difference will destroy the negotiation if one can’t handle it properly. The second question is that whether the only solution for the conflict is to give up one’s own culture and accept everything in another culture.