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Describing your own cultural heritage and traditions and exploring possible origins of your values, worldviews, and behaviors.

Address the following in your paper:

Describe your family's race and ethnicity, sex and gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status, disability, age, religion and spirituality.

Reflect and write on the messages you have received about people from culturally diverse backgrounds

What are you most proud of about your cultural heritage and why?

Compare and contrast your family values, worldviews, and practices with those of some of the families whose ethnicities differ from yours, and provide your reflection. You may use examples form the text for examples of ethnicities different from yours.

How might media coverage affect the public's perception of your culture? Does it encourage or discourage prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping?

If you were a manager, what inclusion strategies from this week's reading might you implement to moderate the media's effect on your employees and to promote inclusion in the workplace?

Include at least two academic references in your research and your textbook Understanding and Managing Diversity as your third source.

1. Consider the following scenario. An individual lives in a country outside the United States and wants to come to the United States to work, to live, or to attend an institution of higher learning. What process should be followed? Explain the legal process as outlined by the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services.

2. Next, consider the effect of immigration on the U.S. economy, on the population, on public education, on the workforce, and on other aspects of society. What do you think are the biggest concerns some individuals have about illegal immigration in the United States? Please be specific in your response. (Note: Remember to cite and reference any sources used).