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Structure of the Presentation

Cultural diversity

How can we
Why cultural
preserve
diversity
cultural
matters
diversity?

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 WHY
C U LT U R A L
DIVERSITY
M AT T E R S

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 Let’s define culture.
Culture is our ‘way of
being’

Common language,
beliefs, principles, etc
are part of culture

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What does it mean to be ‘culturally diverse’?

Recognition Respect Acknowledge Valuing Encouraging Empowering Celebrating

of the abundant for the the validity of what other the contribution people to rather than just
diversity of differences different cultural cultures offer of diverse strengthen tolerating the
cultures expressions groups themselves and difference
others

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 1. Diversity prepares
students for future career
success.
• The workforce is more diverse now than
any time in history.

• Diversity fosters competitiveness and

innovation.

• Success requires awareness and

sensitivity towards human differences .

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 2. Diversity prepares
students to work in a global
society.
• No matter what profession you enter, you
will find yourself working with people
from diverse backgrounds-worldwide.

• Experiencing diversity in university makes

the students more comfortable working
and cooperating with a variety of
individuals of all nationalities.

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 3. Interactions with people
different from ourselves
increases our knowledge
base.
• Research shows that we learn more from
people that are different for us, rather
than we do from people who are similar
to us.

• People from different backgrounds have

their own unique sets of information.

• When they come together and share their

information, their knowledge base
becomes wider.

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 4. Diversity makes us better
at solving problems.

• Life brings many problems, and will

continue to work that way.

• The more we know the better we will do.

• Having more sets of knowledge to draw

from are extremely useful when trying to
tackle problems of today.

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 5. Diversity promotes
creative thinking.
• Diversity expands your capacity for
viewing issues from multiple perspectives.

• Different societies live in different regions

of the world and they all have different
environmental factors.

• If we didn’t have that unique

understanding of cultures from other
environments we would not have made
the advances in medicines and science.

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 6. Diversity enhances self-
awareness.
• Learning from people whose backgrounds
differ from your own sharpens your self
knowledge by allowing you to compare
and contrast.

• Being more self-aware allows you to be

more capable of making informed
decisions about your academic and
future.

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 How do we preserve
cultural diversity?

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 Embracing diversity starts with
self-awareness

• There are certainly a few stereotypes imposed to individuals.

• Cultural messages are deeply ingrained in us, and affects our actions and
thoughts.

• People with weaker self-awareness are prone to fall into common stereotypes.

• Knowledge of self-awareness help you articulate your identity, biases, and

become more comfortable with diverse perspectives.

• Self awareness leads you to seek complexity based on diversity.

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 Celebrate the differences between
us.

• This way, people will be proud of their culture and want to learn more of it.

• Recognizing the importance of unique cultures will make families eager to pass
those cultural differences to their future generations.

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 Identify and Overcome your
biases and prejudices.

• Our nature is to surround ourselves with people from the same background,
and we have a deep need to feel included.

• Society has also ingrained some racial and cultural biases inside us.

• We can overcome this bias by doing some critical thinking.

• Exposing ourselves to other culture will let us identify our own bias early on
and work on overcoming it to become a more open-minded person.

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 CONCLUSION

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