LESSON 2 : Diversity
ACTIVITY 1: Meaning and Dimensions of Diversity.
Go to: http://www.diversityatwork.net/EN/en_what_intro_d.htm
Answer the following questions about the text and the Diversity
Wheel with all the dimensions of diversity.
1. What is the definition of diversity?
2. What is the difference between primary and secondary dimensions of
diversity?
3. Look at the circle where there are the different dimensions of diversity
(The Diversity Wheel). Do you think the yellow coloured dimensions are
the primary or secondary dimensions? Justify your answer.
4. Give two examples of visible dimensions.
5. Give two examples of invisible dimensions.
6. Do these dimensions influence perception and behaviour? Try to explain
this.
7. How do you feel about diversity?
ACTIVITY 2: The Miniature World. What would the World look like if it were
shrunk to a population of 100 people?
Go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvTFKpIaQhM&feature=related
Watch and read.
ACTIVITY 3: Working with the text of the Miniature Earth video, updated in
2007 (source: http://blog.miniature-earth.com/?p=30 ).
Categorize data and differentiate between diversity and social
injustice (Worksheet 1)
ACTIVITY 4: What would happen if you shrank your country into a village of
100 people? What would it look like?
Find a general statistics website of your country and try to get data
about as many dimensions of diversity as you can (see Diversity
Wheel)
Create a powerpoint to present the information and share it with your
European colleagues.
This is an interesting example about United Kingdom:
http://olliebray.typepad.com/olliebraycom/2009/07/if-the-uk-was-a-village.html
You can see the full version (which is too long) at:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1201493/Little-Britain-If-UK-village100-people-telling-snapshot-sort-place-be.html
WORKSHEET 1
1. Complete the text of the Miniature Earth with the following categories
under which different data fall.
Access to ICT - Basic living conditions - Disabilities wealth (2) -
Education -
Gender -
Diseases - Distribution of
Geographic regions/Races
- Religions -
Urban/Rural population distribution
2. Indicate if each category is providing information which is:
● a description of DIVERSITY among human beings, OR
● a denunciation of SOCIAL INJUSTICE
Cross out the wrong option
The Miniature Earth text:
If we could turn the population of the earth into a small community of 100
people, keeping the same proportions we have today, it would be something
like this:
DIVERSITY or SOCIAL INJUSTICE?
61 Asians
12 Europeans
08 North Americans
05 South America and the Caribbean
13 Africans
01 Oceania
DIVERSITY or SOCIAL INJUSTICE?
50 women
50 men
DIVERSITY or SOCIAL INJUSTICE?
47 lives in urban area
DIVERSITY or SOCIAL INJUSTICE?
9 are disabled
DIVERSITY or SOCIAL INJUSTICE?
33 are Christian (Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox, Anglicans and other Christians)
18 are Muslims
14 are Hindus
16 are non-religious
6 are Buddhists
13 practice other religions
DIVERSITY or SOCIAL INJUSTICE?
43 live without basic sanitation
18 live without an improved water source
DIVERSITY or SOCIAL INJUSTICE?
6 people own 59% of the entire wealth of the community
13 are hungry or malnourished
DIVERSITY or SOCIAL INJUSTICE?
14 can’t read
only 7 are educated at a secondary level
DIVERSITY or SOCIAL INJUSTICE?
only 12 have a computer
only 3 have an internet connection
DIVERSITY or SOCIAL INJUSTICE?
1 adult, aged 15-49, has HIV/AIDS.
DIVERSITY or SOCIAL INJUSTICE?
● The village spend more than US$1.12 trillion on military expenditures UN
and only US$ 100 billion on development aid
● If you keep your food in a refrigerator
And your clothes in a closet
If you have a roof over your head
And have a bed to sleep in
You are richer than 75% of the entire world population.
● If you have a bank account
You’re one of the 30 wealthiest people in the world.
● 18 struggle to live on US$ 1.00 per day or less…
53 struggle to live on US$ 2.00 per day or less.
Appreciate what you have
And do your best for a better world.