Salon Division In Diversity

“No one talked about the concept of cultural diversity as a mosaic or as a tapestry of multi-colored threads that when woven together created a vibrantly rich and textured fabric. “Real Americans” were white. “(147) Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston gives her audience an eye opening account of how The United States, a country which prides itself on its diversity, is filled with prejudice and discrimination wherever immigrants are concerned. Jeanne is a beast, she didn’t let anyone stop her from achieving her goals “Not even when I was told I should not continue with journalism major at San Jose State because I was ‘Oriental’ and a female. There were no jobs in the field. So I changed my major to social welfare. And when I was told again by the head of Juvenile Probation Services that they could not hire me as a probation officer because the community was not ‘ready’ for ‘Orientals,’ I did not protest”. Dealing with the same discrimination in my life I can fully relate to Jeanne, there really is nothing you can do but chalk it up and move on with life.

Culture is the Backbone of a society, when something/someone tries to alter it or go against it everyone will notice. In this issue pointed out by Ruth Macklin, we look at the problems that can arise when an individual’s culture and autonomy clash. Every year there at least 30 million immigrants from all over the world that move to the United states of America, making America one of the most culturally diverse country in the world. Keeping this in mind, we will focus on Ruth Macklin’s issue of Multiculturalism. Multiculturalism is the co-existence of diverse cultures, where culture includes racial, religious, or cultural groups and is manifested in customary behaviors, cultural assumptions and values, patterns of thinking, and communicative styles. Critics argue that we associate culture with a society, community and or family, but rarely with a single individual, thus placing it above the individual person. In this paper we are going to look at four different scenarios on from Ruth Macklin’s article.

In the text “Do I Look Like Public Enemy Number One?” by Lorraine Ali, the author discusses her experiences with prejudice and the discrimination she faced as she grew up in the United States as an American of Arab descent, always burdened by the fact that others often considered her guilty by association of crimes committed by those sharing a common cultural heritage. Ever since the first colonists set foot in America to make their homes in the new world, this land has been rich with cultural diversity. Stemming from that diverse beginning, American culture today has developed into a composite of a multitude of cultures that still retain their own various customs that pay homage to one’s ethnic roots rather than a specific set of cultural

Kottak, Conrad Phillip and Kayhryn Kozaitis 2012 On Being Different, Diversity and Multiculturalism in the North American Mainstream, 4th edition, McGraw Hill Press, New York: Chapter 8. (textbook)

Diversity a word often brings in the world of business and in the news. In certain cultural group, it is lip service to the public to alleviate those who have felt undermine by leaders of corporation and public official. On the other hand, immigrant has traveled to distant land for many centuries. Minority has seen prejudice based on personal ideas without any fact. In the United States and Canada, Multicultural groups do have opportunities that are available according to the law of the land, but businesses have the right to refuse within the purview of the local laws. Lastly, minority cultures sometimes feel unwelcome by the dominant culture. As a result, they have seen economic deficient and psychological scars from years oppression. The

America is built on diversity. Right or wrong, good or bad, this diversity is a cauldron of creativity and productivity. The sociocultural, economic and psychological diversity in America’s history is fascinating. Society today has many misconceptions about what it means to belong to a particular ethnicity or race, hence why diversity seizes to exist. It is in fact not difficult to categorize oneself according to the American Psychological Association. Studied research demonstrated in the article “The study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race in American Psychology”, when asking a person to choose race, it will always pertain to a social matter.

The first section of the textbook provides stories from service providers who have worked with and interacted with families of diverse cultures. These stories are great and provide an opportunity to learn from the experiences of others. In Section 2 the authors describe the Diversity Wheel and how it can be used to improve cultural sensitivity and awareness about diversity. The Diversity Wheel is a tool that can help to clarify the many factors that define an individual's uniqueness. This tool lists seventeen factors which relate to the service provider's or family's identity (Gruber). The Diversity Wheel allows the service provider to gain an understanding of the basis for expected behaviors within and outside the service provider's own cultural group. This model of developing an awareness and knowledge gained through self reflection can be generalized across various cultures.

The majority of the current organizational cultural studies have been focused on a traditional population model, where immigrants are the quantitative minority within a substantially larger native population. This creates a problem because there is a knowledge gap about the process of acculturation of immigrants into a country in regions where they are the overwhelming majority of the population. The purpose of this dissertation was to study the process of acculturation of Hispanic immigrants in the Miami-Dade County where they are the majority, into the more general U.S. culture. To do so, this dissertation used a quantitative descriptive research methodology, based on the original Cultural Dimensions theory by Dr. Hofstede, to study the cultural

David Brooks, a political and social writer, commentator, journalist and editor wrote an article to comment on “diversity” and the nature in which people organize themselves in America. The article was published in The Atlantic Monthly, September 2003. Brooks responds to the issue which he see as the obvious: how diversity is a great deal in the United States but yet, no one gives heed to it. Throughout his response, he brings to our attention the various reasons why he think the issue is present in America. He also presents ways in which people could fix this problem by giving examples of what they could do. With all of that being the center of his response, Brooks did bring up certain ideas which I perceive as either agreeable or disagreeable.

The development of a culture in the United States has been a winding road of interactions between differing, oftentimes opposing cultures and races from the first footfalls of Europeans upon the American continent’s shores. Each group of settlers and immigrants have brought their own unique perspectives and underlying values to the table. Many of these perspectives have been incorporated into the mainstream way of life, many others however, have been dismissed and discarded as either foreign or outright dangerous. The

The United States for years has been a country full of opportunities. As of the freedoms, the United States is a country full of many different types of people with their own cultures and different views of life. A reason for this is that, the United States is promoted as an interwoven country. The United States is the land of opportunities, but it can also be abundant in diversity and exclude others because of their culture or just the fact that people are not the same skin color. The color of one’s skin can also predict what opportunities people have in life. The United States may have a pluralistic society, but it can also be the greatest diverse country. Everyone in the United States no matter which race wants to achieve the American Dream

Within the United States, a variety of cultures exist. These cultures may not always get along, but it is this melting pot that makes America unique. Two stories, “A Quilt of a Country” by Anna Quindlen, and “The Immigrant Contribution” by John F Kennedy, provide differing viewpoints on how cultures contributed to make America the Nation that it is. When comparing the two stories, there were some obvious differences when looking at how cultures were perceived. In the story, “A Quilt of a Country” on page 14, the author writes about how different cultures in the United States don’t always get along.

In the late 20th and early 21st century, the American people faced several challenges revolving around cultural diversity. Race, battles concerning territory or power, and sexual preference have divided this country from the beginning of the of its founding. There have been several repercussions due to groups of individuals refusing to accept diversity, but America is making it's way to true equality. The division between the human race was based upon black and white for a great deal of time.

Being the child of an immigrant mother, I have been blessed with the special ability to witness firsthand the importance of diversity. When my mother immigrated to the United States from Panama in 1990, she soon realized that the country in which she now resided was very different from the country of her birth. As a result, my mother was forced to adapt to her new environment by always keeping an open mind to her new surroundings, and this allowed her to overcome different obstacles such as the language barrier and a foreign culture. Through my mother's life story, I have been able to learn about the values of different cultures, and this has allowed me to broaden my horizons beyond my hometown in North Carolina. For me, one of the most exciting

Most people in America identify themselves as multi racial-that is having more than one ethnicity in their biological make up “9.1 million people in the U.S. identify themselves as multiracial” (Pearson Education Ppt Ch 3 Slide 4, 2015). Known as the melting pot, America recognizes that the internal make up of the country comes from many different social entities. However, the Caucasian white people have been the social domination of American society. Going all the way back to the civil war, one can see the challenge of race matters that plague America. While leaps and bounds have been made since that historical period, racism still exists in today’s culture. Those specifically struggling are African Americans and Hispanic Americans. Since the civil rights movement in the 60s, many Black and under privileged minorities strived to make successful lives and live equally to the deemed well-off white people. However there still seems to be a glass ceiling for those in top positions and