Week 4: Discussion Question #3

3). Pick one concept from either text, not already discussed, that you found useful or interesting and discuss it.

The concept that I found to be interesting this week was the concept of Ethical Behavior. In the text is defines Ethical Behavior, as “A proactive approach to diversity requires a careful adherence to ethical behaviors that guide our judgments about ‘whether actions are right or wrong and outcomes are good or bad’. I really enjoyed this concept not only because it was simple and to the point, but also because it gave examples of diverse groups in a table. (Figure 5.1 p.98)

This is a structured based concept that helps guide to understand the right and wrong behaviors or groups or individuals. It assists us to follow a table of positive and negative behaviors. I found this table helpful because it is demonstrated right and wrong in black and white context. In addition, I also found this a bit puzzling. I did not understand how a table could arrange all negative and positive behaviors. I would assume that yes some can be place one or the other, but I do not think that everything is neither black nor white. Some behaviors may be placed in the grey area. I think that this demonstrates a good structure to how behaviors are explained in groups, but I do think that it is a little bias by saying all actions and behaviors are either black or white, or positive or negative.