Requirement
4. A contribution by each of three different people
Required Often forgotten
A DIFFERENT THREE. Three people, each from a different racial, ethnic or religious background, and nothing says they belong to the three groups you chose. Note that this list of categories is not the same one the opening note used.
Notes and warnings
Warning. THIS IS A DIFFERENT THREE, AND A DIFFERENT LIST OF CATEGORIES. Requirements 1, 2 and 3 all use the three groups fixed by the note above requirement 1. This requirement does not mention them. It asks about three different PEOPLE, each from a different racial, ethnic or religious background, and it never says those people belong to your groups. Read the two lists side by side: the opening note says racial, cultural, national or ethnic, and this requirement says racial, ethnic or religious. Cultural and national appear only in the note; religious appears only here. You may use people from your own three groups if that suits you, and it can be tidy, but nothing obliges you to and the question being asked here is wider.
Where this step comes from
- American Cultures Merit Badge Requirements (Merit Badge Hub, last modified 2025-09-19), Requirement 4 · The requirement asks for three different people each from a different racial, ethnic or religious background, and does not refer to the three groups chosen for requirements 1 to 3.