Perspectives on Diversity and Culture

I interviewed three acquaintances this week and asked them:
 1.)  What is your definition of culture?
 2.)  What is your definition of diversity?

Here are the responses I received:

The sister:  "Culture is a person's background- their race, history, and religion.  Diversity is the differences between all of us.  All of our different races, histories, religions, etc."

The friend:  "My culture is the language I speak and the country my family came from.  Or countries, I guess.  My diversity is all of the different ways I do things and think about things because of my culture."

The colleague:  "Culture comes from our family's background.  Diversity is the collective cultures across a population."

I appreciate the responses I received and recognize similarities between these responses and the definitions I've encountered in my reading.  For example, my colleague's definition of culture as including the background of a family (which encompasses many things) supports what I've learned in this course.

All of the responses are fairly broad and leave out mentions of sexual orientation, family structure, work, socio-economic status, and other details of deep culture.

Reflecting on these responses has taught me that even our definitions of culture are diverse!