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Week 5 2. Analysis of Communities and Diversity

Week 5 2. Analysis of Communities and Diversity

Q With the paradigm of Toward Thriving Communities, chapters 3 and 4 in mind (the “Community Connections Chart” and my analysis of the ways that communities help and hinder flourishing), discuss a specific community or organization to which you belong and about which you can say something how it teaches and promotes respect for diversity. Examples include your church/religious community, company/workplace, sorority/fraternity, volunteer organization, Sacred Heart University, your child’s school, your child’s community sports league, and so on. As you can see from the book’s examples, there are lots of potentially positive and negative influences in both directions—too much all to discuss in one post. But summarize what is most striking for you about the organization in light of my chart. Do you consider this organization to be a healthy and ethical community, one that promotes virtues and flourishing? What’s the one thing you would do to improve this community regarding its promotion of respect for diversity?

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I belong to the local Roman Catholic church of my community and my church teaches me the values of selflessness, humility and serving my neighbor. There is respect for diversity taught by my church. The major teaching is about understanding that every human being or living being created by God is the most beautiful because there is God’s love reflected in every created thing by God. Moreover, there is the teaching that every human being is made from the image of God. Therefore, the qualities, behaviors and actions of human beings must reflect the fairness of God in loving and treating God’s created beings and things.