Describe your ethnic and cultural background Please use each of the following as a heading and provide a description for each: your families’ beliefs, traditions and rituals, and values.  Please be specific as possible. Also answer the following questions:  What personal characteristics do you possess that have been shaped by your culture?  Have you ever experienced moments of discrimination or moments of inclusion?  If so, please discuss those experiences and how you managed through or adapted to them

Interview someone of a different culture, religion or ethnic background than yourself (either in person, over telephone) and ask him or her to educate you about their culture (i., foods, traditions, beliefs, values, religious rituals/events, holidays etc.). Write about their culture and then discuss the differences and similarities between your two cultural backgrounds. Please include their relationship to you.

Finally, answer the following: What can we do as a society to become more open and accepting of different cultures? How can we reduce prejudice and discrimination?