Question

Motivational Diversity:

Suppose you were developing a campaign to increase recycling. You have to convince the following people that the program is important: a student government leader, a 40-year-old Indian man, a 25-year-old single woman, a 32-year-old white single father, an 18-year-old man, and finally, and a 22-year-old married Japanese woman. Would you expect that culturally diverse individuals might respond to different types of motivation? Explain in 150 words and use examples with references.

Answer 1

The cultural diversity of people has significant impact on motivation. Culture can shape learning.So there will be definitely difference in response towards motivation.Motivation and culture are inseparable. Intrinsic motivation is vali-dated across disciplines such as cross-cultural studies (Csikszentmihalyi & Csikszentmihalyi, 1988).People who are younger and older; low, medium, and high income; ethnically similar and diverse; first generation college students etc,the respect they receive from people around them, and their ability to trust their own thinking and experiences influence their concentration, imagination, effort, and willingness to persist in spite of challenges.According to Tatum,2003,people who feel unsafe, unconnected, and disrespected are often shown unmotivated to learn anything.According to Geertz, 1973 culture is the deeply learned language, values, beliefs, andbehaviors that penetrate every aspect of a person’s life, and it is continually undergoing changes.For example, Christianity, individualism, and social conservatism—have become so pervasive that these traits have become a form of taken-for-granted national “commonsense” (Blum,2005).