Multiculturalism

Presented by Hamza Shahzad

July 25th, 2020
  Challenges of Living in Multicultural Society
 Cultural Diversity
 Cultural Diversity in Pakistan
 Importance of Cultural Diversity
Multiculturalism  Manage Culture Diversity at the workplace
 Multicultural Education
 Diversity & Inclusion
 Importance of Diversity & Inclusion in Higher Education
  Ideology
 Controversial Ideology
 Tragic Events
 Divides, Separate and Renders
 Misconstrued Ideology
Multiculturalism  Philosophy
 A way to approach Cultural Diversity
 Cultural differences should be respected and even
encouraged
 Make claims due to maintain cultural identity
 Successful Social Relationship
  Challenges
 Not Seen as a Positive Element
 Multicultural Society
 Escalated into Violence & Conflict
Challenges of Living  Growing Demographic Evolution
in a Multicultural  Melting pot
Society  Opposes the Idea of Melting Pot
 Single Solitary Cultural
  Ideology
Refers to having difference including differences in
relation to behavior, ethnicity, race, status, religion,
attitude, believes & much more that come under the
umbrella of Cultural Diversity
Cultural Diversity  Ideology
➢ Communication
➢ Conflict
➢ Cohesion
➢ Creativity
  Ancient History
➢ Indus Valley Civilization
 Language
➢ 8% local consider Urdu their mother tongue
➢ Regionally Focused (Punjabi, Pashto, Sindhi….)
 Islam
Cultural Diversity
➢ Practiced by majority
in Pakistan  Food
➢ Influenced by neighbors
➢ Depend on geography
 Art
➢ Arabic calligraphy to Poetry
  Perform better culturally
 Opportunities (Learning)

Importance of  Broad range of understanding

Cultural Diversity  Attract a diverse range of skillful and talented employees

 Individual contribution & responsibility
 Creativity
  Communication

Manage Cultural  Take short talking turns

 Focus on individual, not the stereotypes
Diversity at the
 Research (other’s culture)
workplace
 Try to find something common
  Eliminate biasness of current curriculum
 Empower individuals from diverse culture
 Recognize negative stereotypes
 Add in-depth content, themes and perspective
Teachers’ Role
 Develop practices to expose stereotypes
Multicultural Education
 Set standards of behaviors
 Focus on Cultural Responsive Teaching
 Organize Cohesion and relevant activities to build
experiences
 Enable students to communicate and collaborate with
others
 Diversity is difference, while inclusion is embracing the
difference.
 No growth policy
 Relationship to hierarchy
Diversity & Inclusion  Efficiency and creativity
 Inclusion leads to better decision making, increase
engagement, productivity, innovation and ultimate better
cultural results
  Core Mission

Importance of Diversity  Social Responsibilities (As an intrinsic value)

& Inclusion in Higher  Need of today

 Widening dimensions of cultural diversity
Education
 Daily Investment (Manage diversity & do training on
inclusion)
Thank You