AHSC 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Distance
2 Mar 2017
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It enhances your diversity skills, which include teamwork, the ability to balance fitting in and being an individual, interpersonal relations and communication. It expands your horizons and empowers you, knowledge is power and gives you the confidence to instill pride in yourself and in your culture. Knowing who you are and where you come from is more important than any material possession. Promotes personal growth and strengthens social networks by making contacts and developing relationships with people from a wide variety of backgrounds. By cultivating personal relationships, people come to know you. Allows you to relate more effectively to a wide variety of instructors with diverse teaching styles, allowing you to learn more from others. Increasing diversity skills allows you to become more flexible, creative and communicative. A lack of contact with cultures outside of our own, promoting insensitivity to cultural differences.
