Learning about other cultures helps us understand different perspectives within the world in which we live. It helps dispel negative stereotypes and personal biases about different groups. As people from diverse cultures contribute language skills, new ways of thinking, new knowledge, and different experiences.

“Race is understood by most people as a mixture of physical, behavioral and cultural attributes. Ethnicity recognizes differences between people mostly on the basis of language and shared culture.”

Defining Ethnic Diversity Ethnic diversity, then, refers to the presence of different ethnic backgrounds or identities. In the United States, many people identify with more than one ethnic group, and they might experience ethnic diversity within their own families.

There are several examples of diversity in the United States. In our country, we have religious diversity. We do not have a state-sponsored religion. People are able to practice their religion however they want….Here are some examples:

• Racial diversity.
• Ethnic diversity.
• Rural and urban diversity.
• Religious diversity.

The two major forms of workforce diversity are ethnicity and individual differences. These demographic characteristics define the factors comprising diversity in the U.S. workforce.

Human genetic variation is the genetic differences in and among populations. There may be multiple variants of any given gene in the human population (alleles), a situation called polymorphism. No two humans are genetically identical.

But how much of this diversity is genetically encoded? How deep are these differences between human groups? First, compared with many other mammalian species, humans are genetically far less diverse – a counterintuitive finding, given our large population and worldwide distribution.

Millennia of separation gave rise to a staggering diversity of human forms, whose mixing ultimately shaped our species. Many had assumed that early human ancestors originated as a single, relatively large ancestral population, and exchanged genes and technologies like stone tools in a more or less random fashion.

Africans

Argentina, the Comoros, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Rwanda and Uruguay rank as the world’s least diverse countries.