“Putting American Back to Work”

ronald reagan: first inaugural address

"Putting American Back to Work"

thank you. thank you.

senator hatfield, mr. chief justice, mr. president, vice president bush, vice president mondale, senator baker, speaker o?ˉneill, reverend moomaw, and my fellow citizens:

to a few of us here today this is a solemn and most momentous occasion. and, yet, in the history of our nation it is a commonplace occurrence. the orderly transfer of authority as called for in the constitution routinely takes place as it has for almost two centuries and few of us stop to think how unique we really are. in the eyes of many in the world, this every-four-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle.

mr. president, i want our fellow citizens to know how much you did to carry on this tradition. by your gracious cooperation in the transition process you have shown a watching world that we are a united people pledged to maintaining a political system which guarantees individual liberty to a greater degree than any other. and i thank you and your people for all your help in maintaining the continuity which is the bulwark of our republic.

the business of our nation goes forward.

these united states are confronted with an economic affliction of great proportions. we suffer from the longest and one of the worst sustained inflations in our national history. it distorts our economic decisions, penalizes thrift, and crushes the struggling young and the fixed-income elderly alike. it threatens to shatter the lives of millions of our people. idle industries have cast Workers into unemployment, human misery and personal indignity.

those who do Work are denied a fair return for their labor by a tax system which penalizes successful achievement and keeps us from maintaining full productivity. but great as our tax burden is, it has not kept pace with public spending. for decades we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children?ˉs future for the temporary convenience of the present. to continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals.

you and i, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. why then should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?

we must act today in order to preserve tomorrow. and let there be no misunderstanding -- we?ˉre going to begin to act beginning today. the economic ills we suffer have come upon us over several decades. they will not go away in days, weeks, or months, but they will go away. they will go away because we as Americans have the capacity now, as we have had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.

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4.race, colors or ethnicity - they are of a minority race, nationalityor religious Background

5.marital status - they either are or are not married

6.disability - they are disabled in some way.

7.age- they are too young or too old

when is discrimination ok?

it is possible to employ people of particular genders, races, ethnic groups, or ages where this is essential for the job.

accommodate diversity in communication

what is communication?

if the source is not transmitting clearly, or if the receiver is not hearing clearly, then communication breaks down. the source can be anything, a dog barking, a radio, a person, a computer. one of the most important things we can learn to do is to communicate effectively. communication is a two way street, someone must want to communicate something and someone else must want to hear what they have to stay. unfortunately people often talk to show off and to deliberately bamboozle the other person, and still more people lack the willingness to listen. so we think we are communicating when we are not.

combining hearing and watching: a good way to the importance of not only the words we speak, but also our body language is to look at what happens with the written word , particularly with emails. you need to beware of e-mail. people read mail in heir own tone of voice. if they are in a bad mood or feeling sour at you for some reason , they will read your mail in that way. a perfectly innocent statement can take on a totally different emotional value depending upon how it is read.

the importance of accommodating diversity in communication

so what does all this mean for accommodating diversity in the way you communicate?

our ability to communicate with communicate with diverse groups, or rather, our lack of it, is considered so important now that it is taught as an academic subject by many university campuses and other educational organizations. we saw in the previous exercise that we are not always good at communicating or listening. add to this another layer of language and cultural differences, and we have a potential minefield of miscommunication. we will look at a very few thing we can do to improve our communication, particularly with individuals or groups who are different from our own

verbal and non-verbal communication across cultures

in an earlier exercise we looked at styles of verbal and no-verbal communication, and saw some case studies of miscommunication across cultural boundaries. let's look at these again and see if we can summarize which ones could be impacted by cultural differences and by physical differences

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