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EXPLAINING THE BENEFITS OF DIVERSITY TO SOCIETY

In the year 2009, it is very true to say that we live in a diverse, multicultural society. This means that people from different countries and backgrounds are living, working and socialising together within Britain and this has brought many advantages to our lives as a whole.

Our current education system covers syllabuses within Religious Education, Languages and History which makes learning so much more interesting for pupils especially if their tutors are from diverse cultural backgrounds themselves - they can really bring the lesson alive which, in turn, keeps the pupils keen to listen and learn.

Religious Education has shown us that there are more options out there other than Christianity and we can make independent choices if we so wish. Celebrities such as Richard Gere and Orlando Bloom are now devout Buddhists and Cat Stevens converted to Islam in the height of his career. Their change in faith has had a huge impact on their lives.

As each religion is dissected, we are made to understand various traditions and beliefs and see them in a different light. In doing so, we gain respect for peoples' faiths and values.

History has taught us the horrific, sheer struggle Africans went through to gain their right to freedom and we were taught how other civilizations used to live ie. the Aztecs and Incas. We learnt the broad spectrum on their differing ideas regarding homes, villages, communities, warfare etc.

Learning other languages not only gives us more skills, but it can give us an incentive to travel, to work or live abroad or to even further our careers, for example, being a translator or interpretor.

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With so many cookery programmes showing us how to prepare and cook many diverse foods globally, we will experiment, following recipes, using weird and wonderful ingredients and a number of exotic herbs and spices to produce mouth watering dishes for our families. Ready made and packaged food such as lasagne, moussaka, prawn curry, are all readily available and easily accessible at our local stores and supermarkets. Occasionally, as a treat, we may order a takeaway; pizza, doner kebab, chinese. But it is not just at home that we eat non-traditional British food. When we go out socially or to ...

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