3.13 American Diversity

What is diversity?

• What makes us all the same

• What makes us unique and different

• A type of government

• A country

Choose THREE forms of diversity that benefit us

• music

• food

• clothing

• bikes

• toys

True or False? To be American you have to have been born here

• True

• False

Why is diversity good?

• We want everyone to be the same

• We only want to talk to people who are the same as us

• To learn from others' differences

True or False? Everyone can help their community in different ways

• True

• False

What are ways that you can help your community? Choose 3.

• stealing

• volunteering

• voting

• staying in your house all the time

• community service projects

What is volunteering?

• voting for a government official

• doing a task without getting paid

• fighting in the army

Why is it important to vote?

• So that you make sure the best person possible is making choices for the community

• to make someone else mad

• to be better than everyone else

Which is an example of diversity

• A group of students all listening to the same music

• A group of students who are sharing different types of family food

• A group of people all dressed the same

Which is an example of diversity

• Friends at a party all wearing clothes from different places around the world

• People eating all the same food at a party

• People all looking and acting the same