University of Phoenix Material

Appendix A

Part I

Define the following terms found in Week One and Week Two readings:

|Term |Definition |
|Diversity |This is a point of difference where the inclusion of different types of people (as people |
| |of different races or cultures) in a group or organization compose differing elements or |
| |qualities |
|Ethnocentrism |The tendency to assume that one’s culture and way of life are superior to all others. |
|Melting pot |This is a diverse ethnic group or racial group or it could be both that forms a new |
| |cultural entity or a creation. |
|Minority group |Minority group is a subordinate group where members have less control or power of their |
| |own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group. |
|Emigration |This means that you leave your home country to settle in another country and call it home.|
|Immigration |Moving to a new country to live as a permanent resident. |
|Culture |This is the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, |
| |meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of |
| |the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the |
| |course of generations through individual and group striving. |
| |I also look at culture as a system of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of |
| |people. |

Part II

Answer each question in 250 to 350 words:

1. What are some of the ways groups of people are identified? There are many different types of ways people are identified the most broad of identifying people are by diversity. Identifying people this way is just basically saying if you are Black, White, Asian, Chinese, Mexican, Spanish, and etc. It’s very a long list for describing who you are. But the only way that sets us apart is the cultures we follow and by skin color, but at the end of it all everyone is equal. I think by our skin color it shouldn’t really tell us who we should conversant with or who we should accept. Another way people can identify people is by the culture they practice or follow. This also could be religious too. In America if they catch a thief then he would serve jail time but in other countries they would either beat them or cut a finger or even a hand depending on how bad it is. The way it could be religious is that people could praise a different deity depending on what their culture believes in. Major groups that people discriminate against are immigrants. I don’t think it’s fair to discriminate against them, because everyone deserves a chance at the freedom that we have and besides people take it for granted any way. There are even famous immigrants that are here now in the U.S. that wanted a chance for freedom and took that chance and are living comfortably now. And a another term that goes against my saying that everyone is equal is Ethnocentrism and this means that one person’s culture is far superior than a another person culture and I think that’s wrong to say something about another cultures’ and beliefs’. When someone says that they are better than someone else that only makes them look like the smaller person. In conclusion of this people are identified in groups, but they don’t realize how much they are similar but just do things in just a different way.

2. Why do people label and group other people? I think people label and group other people because they want to be in a different category from the next person. They want to be marked as an individual person or a part of a group that they fit right into perfectly and not so much the same as another person from another group/category. Not everyone is alike mentally but might be alike physically. Which in other words mean that one may have the physicality to have success in a nature of work while being. Different in mental views, such as how they want their order of business to take place or be done. I also think that people label one another are that they would probably know that they would never fit into that group. This also falls into the tern ethnocentrism thinking that one is better than the other. But no one would have to label each other if they just conversant, and who know maybe we can just be all one group but have different point of views to give each another ideas.