Diversity means valuing differences between people and how those differences can contribute to a richer, more creative and productive working environment. Diversity brings together people from various backgrounds with different life experiences which can generate new ideas and perspectives. Promoting diversity is the first step to not just tolerance but true acceptance as it allows people to see they may have more in common than they thought. Diversity exists in many forms including race, culture, gender, religion, language, geography, and economics.

1. Diversity
Prof: Payel Dey

2. Siddhartha
Mukherjee
Yaikhom
Xebec Singh
Aayesha
Ghosh
Madhupriya
Ghosh
Prernit
Dua
Nishant S
Sharma Sinchan
Bhattachaharya
Aritri
Dhar
Asmi Omega
Beck
Dipannita
Bhattachaharya

4. Diversity means valuing the differences between people
and the ways in which those differences can contribute to a
richer, more creative and more productive working
environment.
Introduction

5. Importance of Diversity……….(1/2)
Perspective
Hearing about another’s experience can shed light on a life different than your own and
provide you a new perspective. When you compare your struggles, priorities, and values,
you can really begin to comprehend where an individual is coming from and understand his
or her actions and behaviors. Perhaps talking to someone new will change your mindset
and priorities, or at least make you appreciate another’s motivations and hardships.
Productivity
Bringing together people of various backgrounds with different life experiences can
generate ideas or perspectives that others may not have ever considered or been aware
of. Everyone has their own way of viewing a problem, shaped by the individual experiences
that they have had. When tackling an issue, wouldn’t it be better to have multiple
interpretations and approaches, rather than everyone contributing the same thoughts and
conclusions.
Becoming a World Citizen
If you experience diversity in your every day life, you will have regular exposure to people,
cultures, traditions, and practices that are unlike your own. You will learn the skills to
communicate and interact with communities and concepts that you are unfamiliar with
and gain a more worldly view.

6. Importance of Diversity……….(2/2)
Richer Life Experience
Diversity is colorful! What if everyone who surrounded you was exactly like you, in every
way? Where is the fun in that? We need new ideas, views, and practices to stimulate and
inspire us, to show us the way others eat, celebrate, and love!
Together, our differences make a strong, beautiful, world community. Even in the face of
intolerance, discrimination, and violence, we must not forget to spread the word about
the importance of diversity and to respond to that violence with a love and a celebration
of our differences.
Growing Acceptance, Diminishing Discrimination
Promoting diversity is the first step to not just “tolerance,” but true acceptance. Through
growing contact with, exposure to, and communication between new people with unique
ideas, individuals may see that they may have more in common than they thought.

7. Diversity is about respecting individual
Race
Culture
National Origin
Region
Gender
Sexual Orientation
Marital Status
Age
Religion
Ethnicity
Disability
Family Structure
Politics
Values
Health
Ability
………..and much more

8. Diversity in Culture……………(1/2)
 Cultural diversity is the quality of diverse or different cultures, as
opposed to monoculture, the global monoculture, or a
homogenization of cultures, akin to cultural decay. The phrase cultural
diversity can also refer to having different cultures respect each
other's differences.
 The phrase "cultural diversity" is also sometimes used to mean the
variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region, or in the
world as a whole. Globalization is often said to have a negative effect
on the world's cultural diversity.

9. Diversity in Culture……………(2/2)
 Research carried out in the 1990s by David Crystal (Honorary Professor
of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor) suggested that at that time,
on average, one language was falling into disuse every two weeks. He
calculated that if that rate of the language death were to continue, then by the
year 2100 more than 90% of the languages currently spoken in the world will
have gone extinct.
 Overpopulation, immigration and imperialism (of both the militaristic
and cultural kind) are reasons that have been suggested to explain any such
decline. However, it could also be argued that with the advent of globalism, a
decline in cultural diversity is inevitable because information sharing often
promotes homogeneity.

10. Ethnic Diversity
 Ethnic diversity is a very beautiful thing. It allows people to get to know one
another, and share cultural aspects. It also greatly reduces the chances of
developing prejudice, racism, and phobias depending of the level of exposure a
person is receiving when venturing to different nations to experience a variety
of unique cultures.
 58% identify with a single ancestry, 22% with multiple ancestries, 20% do not
identify an ancestry
 “The groups that are most oppressed in this country are those who are
indigenous or whose ancestors entered the country involuntarily.

11.  The language of diversity is an evolving
one that requires awareness,
understanding and skill much in the
same way as other areas of diversity
competencies.
Language Diversity
Language provides a means for communication
among and between individuals and groups.
Language serves as a vehicle for expressing
thoughts and feelings. And when it comes to
diversity, language can be a bridge for building
relationships, or a tool for creating and
maintaining divisions across differences.

12. Gender Diversity
 Gender diversity is equitable or fair representation between genders.
Gender diversity most commonly refers to an equitable ratio of men and
women, but may also include non-binary gender categories.
 Gender diversity on corporate boards has been widely discussed, and
many on-going initiatives study and promote gender diversity in fields
traditionally dominated by men,
including computing, engineering, medicine, and science.

13. Religion Diversity
 Religious diversity is the fact that there are significant differences in religious
belief and practice. It has always been recognized by people outside the
smallest and most isolated communities.
 But since early modern times, increasing information from travel, publishing,
and emigration have forced thoughtful people to reflect more deeply on
religious diversity.
 Roughly, pluralistic approaches to religious diversity say that, within bounds,
one religion is as good as any other.

14. Geographic Diversity
 Different parts of the world have vastly varying climates, broadly defined by
their latitudes. It is important to remember that within the same climatic region
there can be significant climatic variations caused by local conditions.
 A survey of early civilizations indicates a strong relationship between
hospitable climates and centres of settled population. At the same time people
also settled in extremely adverse or extreme climatic conditions, and they
could adapt to the conditions with reasonable comfort.
 The idealized notion of "comfort" was non existent at that time and it was
evident that "adaptability" was possible by mechanism of the human body.

15. Economic Diversity
 The economic diversity is defined as, the degree to which an economy's mix of
industries, sectors, skill levels and employment levels differ from a larger
reference economy.
 The main causes of economic diversity are disability, poverty, age,
unemployment, culture and education.
 The poverty cause the economic diversity because a big part of recourses spent
on poverty. One of the main reason is unequal and unjustified distribution of
money parameters.

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