I spoke to three of my faculty members and asked them their definitions of culture and diversity. Katie who is Hispanic/Norwegian, Madison who is Caucasian, and Tieanna who is African American. The aspects of culture that I’ve studied which were present in their definitions are the set of customs, family history, beliefs, norms and traditions. The aspects of diversity that I have studied in this course which were present were a blend of different races, religion, and appreciation of differences all together in an area. Katie found it difficult to define culture beyond customs; I feel she was worried about saying anything offensive. She spoke about diversity in terms of how it exists within a particular community. Madison linked culture as a byproduct of diversity rather than a separate idea. When describing diversity she mentioned the varied aspects of diversity but included meshing with the main (dominant) culture and assuring that everyone fit in. Tieanna’s definitions of both were short and precise, beliefs, traditions and a mixture of race, peoples and religions. The aspects that have been omitted are the ones that may be perceived as more negative, cultural discontinuity, prejudice, cultural blindness. The way that these concepts were defined was fairly similar to the way that I would have defined them initially. I noticed that the ‘deep’ culture was not mentioned as much as the ‘surface” culture. After having been in this course the past few weeks that is something which I would now add to my definitions.