Cultural Diversity In The Conversation

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Andrew Markus Pratt Foundation Research Chair of Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, et al. “Cultural Diversity News, Research and Analysis.” The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2017, theconversation.com/us/topics/cultural-diversity-11582. Andrew Markus talks to us about different cultures and how each of them are affected in many ways. They give us many different websites talking about how Italy people are trying to gain law, religion, parmesan in multicultural. Another cite they want us to learn about is how racism and a lack of diversity can affect the places people work at and how our lives are set up. Also how to talk to kids about racism and how it shows us the what kind of generation this world has gotten us to. We do not talk to kids about …show more content…

“The historic sharing of cultural advances, until they became the common inheritance of the human race, implied much more than cultural diversity; cultures have repeatedly chosen to abandon some feature of their own culture in order to replace it with something from another culture implies that the replacement served their purposes more effectively.” This states that even though many people have a past that all their family contributes to, things will change and so will people. Not everyone wants to stick to their own culture. For example, when someone that is non-popular at school, they will try to fit in the “cool kids” squad. Start acting different and just changing for the better. Another example is when you are from lets say, United States, well you do not really like what is happening so you want to go to mexico because you heard that the culture is different; by all means, it is but changing who you are is half the time not worth …show more content…

“Cultural diversity is nothing more than a difference from the majority. In any culture there is a majority and many minorities. Culture is a set of norms that set standards for a society of what is acceptable behavior.” He talks about how it can make our world a strong and better place. I mean imagine how our life would be without all these different types of food. In the past, many people would call the world a “melting pot” which refers to many types of races in one specific country. How everyone is all in one place at one time. Their can be so many melting pots but immigration has stopped the majority of

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