1. Over the past 5-10 years, what signs of increasing diversity have you seen in your community? What benefits and challenges have come with that increasing diversity?
2. Savannah is a white, 27-year-old woman who was raised in Georgia but now lives in South Dakota. She is a member of the Baptist church, has a degree in computer science, and makes $50,000 a year. She is married to Tom, her college sweetheart. Winona is a 40-year-old woman and a member of the Lakota nation. She was raised in South Dakota but moved to California to pursue her career as a pharmacist. She is married to Robert and they have one child. Although the census would classify Savannah and Winona as belonging to different racial/ethnic groups, they are similar in many ways. In what ways are their similarities more significant than their differences?