Speech On Respect And Awareness

As American labor leader and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez expressed, “Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.” Respecting everyone’s culture is a necessity, no matter their ethnic background, or if they stand out in society. Language, customs, food, and religion are all parts of a culture everyone possesses. All individuals have a viewpoint, a perspective of what cultures the world around them is compromised of. The culture in every human influences how they view the world around them by hiding one’s own culture, giving people biased views of others’ ethnicities, and weighing down the minority groups.

All things considered, we believe that ones culture may or may not inform the way he or she views others and the world around them. Some people do let their culture inform the way he or she views others and the world around them as shown in the story "An Indian Fathers Plea" by Robert Lake. Though many people do not let their culture inform the way he or she views others and the world around them as shown in the story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker with Dee straying from how she was raised. Yet those are just a few people who do or don't let their culture inform them about the world or others. Everyone is different and people should understand that yes some people do use their culture for information about things, but many people this days

Accepting the differences of others by expanding your own level of understanding begins with the awareness that your own culture

Respect of and understanding that other people have differing opinions, views and religious/cultural beliefs, and how these beliefs may impact on building an effective,

A few core values that I place importance on in my life are responsibility and reliability. Respecting others is an extremely important value. I believe we all have a responsibility to be respectful because the respect that others are given is what is returned to you. I respect my teachers and do all

Out of these Core Values, I feel that I am strongest is Compassion/Caring. Throughout my life, I have always been concerned with the wellbeing of others. I try my best to help those around me whenever I can. A huge part of the value of Compassion/Caring is considering the needs of others, attending to those needs, and helping others feel that they are worth something. When I was in high school, a friend of mine called me one day, asking for my help. She had gotten some bad news

Another personal value of mine is promoting equality. I mentioned in the previous paragraph that certain groups of people have been oppressed in our society, thus I believe everyone should be treated equally. Women most certainly have, but I have also seen how certain ethnic groups in our society are continually oppressed against. I believe that all people should be treated the same. It does not matter what color skin you have, what religion group you belong to, or what sexual preference you have, we all bleed the same blood. Living in a low-income area in Saint Paul, I have seen first-hand how Asian Americans and African Americans are treated differently. My mother has always taught my sister and I to try and treat everyone with the same respect we would expect to receive; therefore, this personal value correlates well to the cultural competence and social diversity mentioned in the NASW Code of Ethics.

There are many values that I hold personally close to my heart. Many of which are hidden from plain sight, while others are obvious. The values I have, have been largely influenced by family and my faith. As far as I can remember, my mom would tell me “treat

different values and opinions than our culture does, we need to respect other cultures because

When we interact with people from other cultures it is important to understand that there is a history behind how they view us and how we view them. Many cultures within our country, as well as throughout the world, have such different belief systems from ours that if we don’t make a point of learning about the history behind other belief systems

Most people have adopted the habits of ignorant and inconsiderate values that have come to define what our society is today. The increasing issue of Muslim American discrimination today will be only reversed if more extreme actions are taken and the idea of acceptance of others is portrayed. According to Ria Chakraborty of the Huffington Post, “But as an American, I earnestly beg for all of us to hold everyone to the same standards.” Americans should treat others the way they want to be treated. This is pertaining to the Golden Rule which many people recognize. Americans are not taking this issue seriously, and statistics are generally on the rise. It is critical for Americans to change their attitudes towards certain religious groups for this to change. In “Self-Reliance”, Emerson states “ terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency.” Henceforth, every man is afraid of individualism is avoiding the core values of respect. Americans should rethink what they follow more

My core values consist of the following: accomplishment, benevolent, determined, gallant, helpful, merciful, opportunity, optimistic, perseverance and vigorous.

It is imperative that these same principles are utilized when communicating to cultural groups other than our own because people from different cultures encode and decode messages and meaning differently. Because of this, what is acceptable to one is not necessarily acceptable by the other especially if they base their practices on their own judgments and ideas and communicate disregarding the judgments and ideas of any other culture. Ignorance can lead to devastating and damaging assumptions in terms of building intercultural relationships when one enters communication using the same old ethnocentric approach. It is a lot like the Nazis viewing the world according to their standards and beliefs without regards to the rights and beliefs of any other group. It is also the same as extreme

It is true that all cultures have similar values such as excellence, respect, integrity, and dignity, and they bring it across in many ways from social systems to religious observations. While all these methods that the cultures recognize are different, they all come together to represent the common core values that societies share in the end. Many central aspects of different cultures can come together and meet at one specific point. Core values are the principles that guide all of society’s actions. It is these core values that help resolve many conflicts of a culture. A culture becomes weak and is not as respected well when they don’t believe in or follow any core values. For example, in the modern world today there are numerous conflicts spreading amongst Muslims. Many Muslim and Jewish countries in the Middle East are not exactly “respected”. In fact, recently there was a report saying that a news media personnel who engages in journalism activities ever since the Palestine Wars in the Gaza Strip, is only considered a local journalist, even though he takes videos, notes, and writes reports for many events that take place behind the fighting lines as well as in the person’s households who are affected. He is not respected entirely as a national journalist like other well known CNN Journalists today despite the hardships he had to go through loosing family members due to the impending conflict.

Integrity, as we all may know,is not a joke. Something many people take very seriously. I would hope you all would know the definition of integrity, if not I guess it would be helpful to tell you. Integrity in the internet's perspective is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness, the state of being whole and undivided. In my Perspective Integrity is being able to be honest and true, to not just yourself but everyone that's in your surroundings as well. There is another version of integrity and that is self-Integrity which is known as the process of knowing your self, a process of self-sought but never completed. Honesty is the state imposed by others, which is somewhat connected to self-integrity. Integrity is how a person will live their life however they please. In this crazy thing we call life, we tend to face many choices every single day that not only can we personally answer but everyone can answer as well. Integrity is doing the right thing versus the wrong thing, and I am not saying that any of the definitions are incorrect, but what I am portraying is that everybody's definition is different, and will always be different.