Our project with Madison Elementary relates to this course on communication ethics and diversity because of the age of children we’ll be working with in the end product, the different ethics and viewpoints each of us has as individuals and will bring to the entire group, and the different demographics that may come with working within this elementary school.
Obviously, as with anything across cultural lines, there are differences in morals. When a person assumes about a culture, they make a judgment causing either a good or bad reaction. Each person has an idea of what is right and wrong, realized by where they lived and how they were brought up. It is much easier to know more about other cultures, and know other people’s moral character to understand everything. People assume all of the time. Whether it is right or wrong they assume that if you are different from them, you don't value the same things, and often times it takes a negative connotation. Because of that people may choose to communicate more, less, or differently. Assumptions of character differ from cultures all around, because actions and language differ from culture to culture. As an example, many cultures show affection when meeting someone or saying hi, but some cultures may not shake hands, because their hand is not clean/ good enough to touch someone else's. In the United States it is everyday culture to greet someone with a handshake. This is just one culture difference followed by many, many others depending on where someone resides in the world.
http://www.adl.org/issue_education/hateprejudice/Prejudice3.asp
http://pbskids.org/rogers/parentsteachers/theme/1581_t_art.html
