IDENTITY AND

DIVERSITY I
IRIS CHEN
SEEDFOLKS: CHAPTER 1

• Life in the U.S. can be lonely and alienating for an immigrant. The city is
not going to change to accommodate Kim—she has to change and adapt.
• Kim wonders if her father’s spirit even knows who she is---finding a way
to connect with her father’s spirit.
• Planting beans to make her father proud is the book’s first suggestion that
gardening can be a way to connect with deceased family members
MULTICULTURALISM

• We have lots of different culture in our world, some of those culture

consist of us.
• Multiculturalism is a situation in which all the different cultural or racial
groups in a society have equal rights and opportunities, and none is
ignored or regarded as unimportant.
• Multiculturalism encourages the integration of various cultures and the
mutual exchange of ideas and viewpoints. Sharing ideas can lead to new
opportunities, innovations and more productive working relationships.
THINK ABOUT THIS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tv7NaV47no
• How does those similarities or differences may affect
our lives? Positive or negative?
• Why we need a diverse world and community?
CULTURAL DIVERSITIES CAN:

• helps promote peaceful coexistence among people from different cultures

and ethnic backgrounds in their workplace, institutions, and social settings
• helps people to acknowledge that the world comprises different types of
people from different cultural settings
• people learn new skills from others and encourage innovations through
dialogue and consultations
• it promotes cross-cultural friendship, increases comfort, reduces cultural
stereotypes, and impacts positive attitudes toward people living in a given
society.
GROUP DISCUSSION

• Join in group, find out when and where you had

realized the cultural differences, what is your
expectations to your community?
• Have you ever given up your preferences but to
follow the lead of the mainstream groups?
AS WE ARE DIFFERENT, HOW CAN WE
GET ALONG WELL WITH EACH OTHER?