Week 3 Discussion Forum Culture

Choose one of the following incidents involving religious freedom.

Describe how each of the different perspectives on diversity (Anglo-conformism, melting pot, separatism, and pluralism) would assess the situation.
Are the individual’s rights to behave in accordance with their faith in danger of being violated?
How do you think the incident should be resolved?
Remember to respond to two of your classmates’ initial posts with your own opinions and ideas.
A Jainist student attending public high school has requested that the cafeteria staff clearly list the contents of each dish so that he can be certain he does not eat any animal products.
Native American members of a church want to be allowed to ingest peyote because this drug has historically been part of their religious rituals.
Following his baptism, a Sikh student wants to wear his required symbolic knife (kirpan) to school.
An employee who is a Seventh-Day Adventist wants to be excused from work every Saturday because it is their Sabbath.

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Excusing a Seventh – Day Adventist Employee from Work Every Saturday

Melting Pot Perspective

The melting pot viewpoint posits that society comprises various groups of people, each with different personalities and the interaction results in the integration of minority classes into the practices of | GET AN EXPERT FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENT | regards the beliefs, practices, and thoughts of the whole group as the standard criteria of measuring society’s way of life. As such, the melting pot viewpoint would be reluctant to excuse such an employee from work every Saturday.

Anglo-Conformism Viewpoint This perspective argues that individuals entering a system that society has already established should learn and align their beliefs and views with those of that | GET AN EXPERT FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENT | relates more to the concept of assimilation, where an individual abandons their way of thinking and culture and embraces…