Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

Question

1. Personality is at the center of Gardenswartz and Rowe's diversity wheel. 
2. On Gardenswartz and Rowe's diversity wheel, internal dimensions of diversity include gender, age, and race. 
3. On Gardenswartz and Rowe's diversity wheel, biographical dimensions of diversity consist of the personal characteristics that people acquire, discard, or modify throughout their lives. 
4. Individuals have some ability to control their external dimensions of diversity. 

Answer 1

1. TRUE
At the center of the diversity wheel is personality. It is at the center because personality is defined as the stable physical and mental characteristics responsible for a person's identity.
2. TRUE
Internal dimensions of diversity are those human differences that exert a powerful, sustained effect throughout every stage of our lives: gender, age, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, physical abilities.
3. FALSE
External dimensions of diversity include an element of choice; they consist of the personal characteristics that people acquire, discard, or modify throughout their lives: educational background, marital status, parental status, religion, income, geographic location, work experience, recreational habits, appearance, personal habits.
4. TRUE
External dimensions are referred to as the secondary dimensions of diversity because we have a greater ability to influence or control them than we do internal dimensions.