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    This document discusses the importance of cultural diversity and how to preserve it. It argues that cultural diversity is important for (1) career success in an increasingly global workforce, (2) preparing students to work in a global society, (3) increasing knowledge through exposure to different perspectives, (4) better problem solving with more perspectives, (5) promoting creative thinking, and (6) enhancing self-awareness. It recommends preserving cultural diversity by embracing self-awareness, celebrating differences, identifying and overcoming biases and prejudices, and exposing oneself to other cultures.

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    This document discusses the importance of cultural diversity and how to preserve it. It argues that cultural diversity is important for (1) career success in an increasingly global workforce, (2) preparing students to work in a global society, (3) increasing knowledge through exposure to different perspectives, (4) better problem solving with more perspectives, (5) promoting creative thinking, and (6) enhancing self-awareness. It recommends preserving cultural diversity by embracing self-awareness, celebrating differences, identifying and overcoming biases and prejudices, and exposing oneself to other cultures.

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    This document discusses the importance of cultural diversity and how to preserve it. It argues that cultural diversity is important for (1) career success in an increasingly global workforce, (2) preparing students to work in a global society, (3) increasing knowledge through exposure to different perspectives, (4) better problem solving with more perspectives, (5) promoting creative thinking, and (6) enhancing self-awareness. It recommends preserving cultural diversity by embracing self-awareness, celebrating differences, identifying and overcoming biases and prejudices, and exposing oneself to other cultures.

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    This document discusses the importance of cultural diversity and how to preserve it. It argues that cultural diversity is important for (1) career success in an increasingly global workforce, (2) preparing students to work in a global society, (3) increasing knowledge through exposure to different perspectives, (4) better problem solving with more perspectives, (5) promoting creative thinking, and (6) enhancing self-awareness. It recommends preserving cultural diversity by embracing self-awareness, celebrating differences, identifying and overcoming biases and prejudices, and exposing oneself to other cultures.

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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

    3
    Let’s define culture.
    Culture is our ‘way of
    being’

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

    4
    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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