Diversity is what makes people similar or different from each another. And we have these important characteristics to take into account: Gender, race, age, religion, physical abilities, sexual orientation, education and functional background. Also, some of them being visible, invisible and I propose and new category, “rampant”. For in the case of being too visible to ignore.
In most of these cases, the law and the legislation have several norms to avoid discrimination in the work place mainly. For example: “Employees should be able to practice their beliefs unless doing so provides an unreasonable hardship on the employer”.
Here the most importance thing to be learned is tolerance and cultural self awareness to avoid any incident that will reflect on the business relation. We also need one thing called: Cultural intelligence which is the ability to operate in a variety of situations.
Finally, we must think in the differences that a country, a region, or even a different city bring to individuals. Their background and everything else is relevant to explore for diversity. And we must be aware of this fact.
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1. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (2007). Religious discrimination. Retrieved November 7, 2008, from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Web site: http://www.eeoc.gov/types/religion.html.
2. Exploring diversity, Class presentation, http://interactiva.eafit.edu.co/ei/
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In this picture we can see and old and classic example of advertisement on behalf of United colours of Benetton, stating that although all men are created equal, there are many sizes, colours, and thinking in every human being.
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In this other picture, we can see how eventhough global diversity, we must all push the world together to a complete understanding of diversity.
WHO IS MANAGING ETHNIC AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE EUROPEAN CONDOMINIUM? THE MOMENTS OF ENTRY, INTEGRATION AND PRESERVATION
The article talks about the legal aspects by which ethnic and cultural diversity is managed to the interior of the EU. It mentions how the EU must face the challenges of responsible diversity management, having the main constitutional value of “cultural diversity”.
“Sovereignty over minorities, once vested exclusively in the state, is no longer concentrated in one sphere of governance. Therefore, minority protection is not only a ‘competence matter’ but forms part of a “polycentric diffusion which characterizes an increasingly large share of public tasks and functions””.
Therefore we can conclude that diversity is being taken into account with a high importance inside the EU and that the biggest Melting pot in the world, bigger and more complex than the USA, the EU, has many countries, nationalities, languages and cultural differences protected by its law and Constitution.
They are far ahead in what it refers to having, respecting and listening to diversity.
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1. Palermo and Woelk, 2005.
2. Who is Managing Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in the European Condominium? The Moments of Entry, Integration and Preservation, GABRIEL N. TOGGENBURG, JCMS 2005 Volume 43. Number 4. pp. 717–38.
QUESTION
Do you think the entry and integration of new members to the European Union are processes that promote diversity ?, or, on the contrary, strive to homogenize the European society ?.
Yes, I do think that the entry and integration of all the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe as new members to the European union is a big process that promotes diversity in the sense of integrating and assimilating many different new cultures into the legislative and cultural society of Europe. The EU constitutes now days the most diverse region in the world due to their efforts to get together all sorts of new cultures and countries within.
It does not homogenize the continent as in the case of the USA, where each state is independent but merely a much related picture of the next one. In the case of Europe, the amount of languages and cultures and ways of life put together and most important of all, respected, are a true collage of diversity.
http://www.marlerblog.com/uploads/image/eu-map3.jpg
The flags together say it all. Diversity and a collage of multicultural people together.
USEFUL LINKS
http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/diversity-in-the-workplace-1595.html
In this link, we can find something similar to what seen in class about diversity.
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