Chapter 5
Respecting Diversity and Developing Cultural Awareness
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding the basic components of culture
Welcoming experiences outside the realm of your culture
Recognizing the observable and unseen facets of diversity
Seeing past your conditioning to embrace people’s differences
Acknowledging your biases
Each of us shines in a different way, but that doesn’t make our light any less bright.
You live in a big wide world filled with all kinds of people, and if you choose not to interact with those who are different from you, you’re going to miss a lot of opportunities to enrich your life. The phrase “same old, same old” is true. Same gets old. Consequently, you need to be able to not just tolerate differences among people but genuinely embrace and celebrate them.
In this chapter, you find out how to understand and respect diversity (differences among people), how to recognize how much people share in spite of those differences, and how to become more culturally ...
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