SUMMARY:
Diversity is the way of understanding the importance of tolerance to what is different. It means that there are persons who differ from us in gender, age, physical appearance, knowledge, social class, etc. This way its easier to understand that we are all different but that there should not exist any discrimination pattern, on the contrary there should be tolerance and acceptance. The thruth is, that working together we can learn more from others and at the same time as we create bonds and relations we create a deeper experience of having an open mind. As frontiers vanish and all citizens from the world come closer, we create ideas of multiculturalism. In the present is easy to see a person that has a mixed culture with a thousand of different possibilities.
On the other hand, globalization constantly helps this phenomenom, because with the exchange of merchandise and knowledges contries have adquiered the facility of working with different cultures.
Diversity can be a usefull tool for any kind of company, and bring as much advantages as you can imagine. For example, diversity can be used in the inner part of a company like managing employees and the values such as respect within them. Having settled the importance of acceptance between work bodies gives the security of less problems in a management style. The other part of the advantages shows the outer part, this concerns the clients, suppliers, etc, as this is the other part of the company its appropiate functioning is defining. This is where there should be an emphasis in service to clients, personalized, depending on the costumer; at this point is where diversity plays an important role because as good as sales persons get in touch with the client as good as sales can get to be. Thanks to diversity there are all types of tasks for every personality, diversity is the special part of our personality that takes us to be different from others, and by this perspective is how we get to be unique.
QUESTION:
1) Do you think the entry and integration of new members to the European Union are processes that promote diversity, or on the contrary they strive to homogenize the European society?
I think that the European Union promotes diversity because they always stand up for the cultural differences of each country, there are laws that respect the diversity between members. Besides,accepting new members is already an act to promote it. They also have laws agaisnt discrimination, there is the strong belief that any employer should respect the culture of the person he hires. With this law what the E.U. wants to achieve is complete freedom of expresion and respect over values. In fact, diversity helps more than discrimination would, because when people think different is because they see things in a different way, and this is what brings changes. Different opinions can make much more than routines. Being a member of the European Union has many benefits, but overall the most important advantage is the diversity they manage between them, because thanks to this is why they can get stronger and facilitate trouble. A day has been prepared to celebrate diversity in four member states, their major objective is to have a day full of interaction and learn how to be responsible for your own behaviour towards discrimination. The biggest objective of this campaign is to create a sense of social responsability in order to make bonds between cultures stronger and to end with all bad behaviors that can indispose any person from a different culture.
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- Toggenburg, Gabriel.N.2005¨Who is managing ethnic and cultural diversity in european Condominium?The moments of entry, integration and preservation¨.
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