The Importance Of Cultural Patterns

1. Why do we often not recognize our own cultural patterns?
The main reason why we don’t recognize our own cultural patterns is that we are often desensitized to them. We tend to not recognize our cultural patterns because they are naturally a part of our everyday lives (we are unaware that these cultural patterns are even taking place). In other words, since these cultural processes are embedded into our everyday lives in almost every aspect (such as how we interact with other groups that we don’t belong to and how we view these other groups), we usually don’t need to stop and think about the effects of these cultural patterns.

2. Why is it important to help students learn their own cultural background and heritage?
It is important to help students learn their own cultural background and heritage for several reasons. When you help students learn about their cultural backgrounds and heritages, you are sending a message to the student that you are going to embrace and appreciate his or her cultural background. When students understand their cultural background better, they will get a better sense of who they are as a person. Allowing students to develop a sense of personal identity will allow the students to feel a stronger sense of purpose in everything that they do both inside the classroom as well as outside the classroom.

When students have a sense of equality, they will feel as if they have an equal opportunity to learn compared to everyone else in the class.
3. How have theories describing diversity impacted on the educational process in the past