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Work Effectively with Diversity

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Work Effectively With Diversity SECTION 1: RECOGNISE AND VALUE INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES Assessment Strategy: Activities Activity 1 1. Explain stereotyping and the reasons why it is not good to let stereotypes affect your relationship with others. Stereotyping is holding the thought that the members of a particular group are all of the same character or thinking. For example: that all accountants are boring, all red heads are bad tempered, all skinny people are anorexic, all girls play with dolls, all boys play with cars, etc. Stereotyping makes assumptions about members of a particular group, solely because of their membership in that group. In my opinion, it isn’t good to let stereotypes affect my relationship with others because: …show more content…

Looking back now, if placed in that same situation, I would not react by confronting the person. I now realise that she probably wasn’t even aware of my feelings about growing up in South Africa and how a comment like that would affect me. She probably just said it because it is within her family/cultural upbringing to use terms like that in a joking way. I would now be more tolerant when faced with a situation like that and brush it aside. Stereotyping that women are bad drivers: On a regular occasion, when driving with males in a car, and there is somebody on the road making an error in driving, the comment always comes up that the driver must be a female. I know that it is said in jest, but it is a typical stereotyping comment which is made, which seems to be accepted by society. I don’t drive, so I don’t take offence to the comment, but I do stand up for other female drivers when the comment is made though, because I wouldn’t be surprised if other females, who do drive, do take offence to such a comment. Learning what I have now though, if a comment like that is said, then I won’t react to it. I will be tolerant towards the person saying it because they are obviously repeating something which is commonly said within society and said in jest. Even though the comment isn’t acceptable to me, I will learn to tolerate it. 3. What can you do to overcome these effects of stereotyping? 1. I should learn to be more tolerant and become more aware

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