Multiculturalis

m and Diversit
y
Society and Culture
Fall 2014

Announcement
This

and next week: Race, ethnicity, multiculturalism

Today:

Race

Next

week: Assignment#3: (1) OR (2) in 1-2 pages

Bring and submit it in class.
1)Find out racial prejudice in Korea through visual media: how for
eigners/ different races are portrayed; how different races are por
trayed and why that might be.
2) Interview on multiculturalism and describe the results and your
interpretation (three interviews)

How different races are portrayed

in Korea
TV
Movie
Pictures

on advertisement
Textbooks
etc.

Interview on multiculturalism
Five

questions and three informants

Sample interview questions:

What does it mean?
What do you think?
How is it in Korea(or any other countries)?
Any personal experience?

Interview
Different

from questionnaire
( quantitative data analysis)

You

do not want yes or no question, but the

informants opinions and stories.
Qualitative data analysis

Student presentations
Racial

prejudices in Korea up to 5 students

Interview results up to 5 presentations
next

and the second week of Dec.

(12/4)
(12/11)

Any

topic up to 5 students who would like to present ( ot

her students attendance optional)
12/9( Tuesday); or this day can be used to ask questions on
essay.

What if you never presented?

Presentation : (up to) 5 points
Extra presentation: (up to) 2 points

If you NEVER presented In your final essay, you

need to answer one more question and discuss to
get the points that you didnt from a presentation.
(it will be a short answer (1 page): discuss the diff
erences between A and B)

Final take-home essay

To

be distributed on 12/8
Due 12/18
Two questions; 5-8 pages; 20 points
Individual

advice session possible between1

2/8-15, during office hrs and via appointme
nts

Multicultural and Diversity Issues

Race
Ethnicity
Cultural

Diversity

multicultural & diversity issues

Can you find anything strange?

http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/1

2/27/racialized-representations-of-evolutio
n/

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Race
Biological?

Social?

multicultural & diversity issues

RACE
A

socially determined category that is related

to physical characteristics in a complex way.
Not a stable category; has changed over tim
e
Used often in US as if there is total agreeme
nt about definition ( school forms, Birth/deat
h certificates etc)
Has been defined socially, biologically and ge
ographically

RACE-PHYSICAL
Physical

and inborn characteristics

Skin color, body build or facial features
Unlike culture, race cannot be changed or le
arned or acquired after birth
Other terms used-Negroid, Caucasoid and
Mongoloid

RACE-GEOGRAPHICALLY
Determined

by the region of the world and

country
African, American Indian, Asian, Australian,
European, Indian, Melanesian, and Polynesi
an

Race an illusion?
http://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000

_00Home.htm

RACE in US
Individuals

are asked to state race on for

ms
Society places emphasis on race and so
me individuals may claim that their race
affects the quality of their life experience
s
Some African American and Latino Ame
rican men may feel some harassment du
e to their race.

Race and racial prejudices in the

US
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkpUy

B2xgTM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOVwrc

TzRBs

Social experiments on racial preju

dice
blacks

in the US

Muslims

in the US

Recently in the US..

Ferguson,

Missouri
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/13/us
/ferguson-missouri-town-under-siege-after-police
-shooting.html?_r=
0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= i0IECwZmIYM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= Wx4oqkg8Klg

Now, back to the human evolution:

how

race is portrayed

http

://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/12/27
/racialized-representations-of-evolution/

Ethnicity
An

individuals sense of identification a

nd provides a sense of belonging to a
group; racial, cultural, religiousetc.
African-Caribbean , Jewish American,
Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Italia
n American, Muslim, Cherokee, Navaj
o

More on Ethnicity
Persons

can be at different stages of the eth

ic awareness
Ethnic group is a cultural group with a sense
of peoplehood, shared history, common anc
estry, and common set of political and econ
omic interests

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Diversity
A

variety of different cultures.

Often refers to the interaction of two or mo
re cultures or ethnic groups.

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Why study multicultural issues?

Chances

are very high that you will work wit

h people of diverse cultures.
As a professional it is important to understa
nd differences between cultures and what r
amifications this will have in the way you int
eract with these diverse cultures.

Cultural Diversity - Multiculturalis

m
Multiculturalism pers
pective recognizing
the cultural diversity
and promoting equ
al standing for all cu
ltural traditions

 Multicultural

society:
a society where people of different races, cultures and
traditions live side by side with a mutual respect.
Multiculturalism is beneficial to a society,
because it consists of people from different ethnic
backgrounds, cultures and religions living and working
together.