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In this module, you will have a better understanding about your role in
promoting respect for individual differences. This aims to give you an
opportunity to view other’s perspectives and feelings. Accepting
attitude and openness to other’s unique characteristics will help you to
have healthy relationships.
3. What can you say about the differences that you observed among
these three persons?
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Showing Support for Others
Copy the following table on a sheet of paper. How will you support
others in the given situations? Write your answer in each column.
Let’s Explore This
Showing Support for Others
Let’s Explore This
Showing Support for Others
Processing Questions:
1. What do you notice with your answers?
In dealing with others, we must recognize that we are all different from
one another. Though we may have similarities in terms of preferences,
taste, physical appearance, style and many more, we still have our
distinctions and uniqueness which make us special in different ways.
Keep in Mind
There is harmony in diversity and we can all keep it that way if we learn
to accept one another as we are.
There are healthy ways to deal with our individual differences which
would work for everyone’s advantage. Here are some:
Healthy Ways to Deal with our
Individual Differences
a. Accept that we are all different. Don’t assume that your preferences
would always be the same as those of your peers or friends. Of course
there are similarities among you but all have different stories to tell
that affect the way you see things. You may have different beliefs,
culture, values, and even interest, and you cannot force anybody to be
exactly the same as you. Remember, even twins have differences.
Healthy Ways to Deal with our
Individual Differences
d. Try to consider where others are coming from. Your family set-up
may be different from what your friends have. People might have
grown up in a province or in a highly urbanized city. There are those
who have a complete set of parents and those that have a single parent
or no parents at all. Additionally, people have different childhood
experiences which greatly affect their attitude and personality now.
There are also those who struggle financially and those who are well
off. Keep in mind that people are coming from different backgrounds
and they act, decide and make choices based on those things
Healthy Ways to Deal with our
Individual Differences
e. If your differences with others are getting in the way, try to have a
common ground. You cannot impose your beliefs, values and culture to
others, the same way that they cannot do that to you. However, instead
of trying to prove who’s better and who’s not, you may want to find an
area where you can both improve yourself while learning from each
other. There are differences that are worthy to talk and celebrate, and
there are those that we just accept unconditionally just like in the
second item. There’s no point in comparing people as each of us have
our own potentials and abilities.
Healthy Ways to Deal with our
Individual Differences
Always remember that you co-exist with others. There are things that
you cannot control like the people around you but you can always
manage the way you deal with them. The choice is always with you,
either you make the most out of those individual differences and have a
happy life or you make that as your limitations.
You Can Do It!
“I Care” Policies
Copy the table below on a separate sheet of paper. Write at least five
policies at home, in school, in the community or online that you
personally do to respect individual differences. Answer the processing
questions after.
You Can Do It!
“I Care” Policies
Processing Questions
1. How do you compare your answers in each column?