Portfolio #6

Portfolio exercise #6 

With a partner, please answer the following. You may use internet resources to help you.

1.      Define :

a.  Stereotyping : A fixed idea about a type of person based on image  which is often not true.

 b.    Prejudice : judging people badly before knowing them

 c.    Bias : is to show a favour to one side only

 d.      Discrimination : Treated one group Differently from the other one

2.    Given example for each.

   -       Stereotyping: Girls are not good at sports, Girls are clever than guys.

            -       Prejudice: She has also done some work on national identity and racial 
prejudice.

          -       Bias: non-locals are not getting a salary same as Emirati people's .

            -       Discrimination: white people hate black people.

Watch  Class Divided

ü Understanding

With partners, answer the following:

1.      Where, when and with whom did this experiment take place?In the School , USA , Tuesday, wednessday, 3rd grade class.

2.      Describe the experiment.Separate the students by the color of their eye, and treat them differently.

3.      What were the results?the students start to say bad words to each other, a fight happened between blue eye and another brown eye.

4.      How successful do you believe it was?

they learn that they shouldn't  judge people from their appearance. It was a very good experiment that these children still remember how does it feel to be discriminated against.  

Ø  a time she or he experienced prejudice or discrimination

My friend is from America and he thinks that I’m rich because I’m from the emirates

Ø  a time she or he discriminated against somebody else

I prefer locals in shopping malls than expats because they have more money

Ø  a time she or he witnessed discrimination and did nothingabout it

Never

Ø  a time she or he witnessed discrimination and did something about it

Deeper- extra 

In groups of four, discuss the following:

Ø  a time she or he experienced prejudice or discrimination

In japan there was some old man and when my frind look for him along time then the old man call the police and he say that this gay he want abuse me .

Ø  a time she or he discriminated against somebody else

Some local people (Emiraties) do not like Yemeni people and Irani people and we see to many discriminated either by communicate or by looking at them

Ø  a time she or he witnessed discrimination and did nothing about it

When some Saudis caked Indian because he is not work vary will and when I take with them he say not your basins  

 

Ø  a time she or he witnessed discrimination and did somethingabout it

One day  I go to company and I see one Egyptian man call he is friend to finish he’s application and paper , while we ware whit our turn and its was not Egyptian turn  I stopped them by calling the manger

Presentation 2 #

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obRmlIo3dH4

                                                    Culture Diversity

      The culture diversity means that are different language, tradition , skin color, ethnic and location. There are a lot of challenges that coming from deferents culture such as racism, language and religion. Some people think that they should avoid the challenges of the culture diversity. Firstly, they suggested that people should have equal contact with each person. Secondly, persons must respect other languages and tradition. Finally, the government should educate all of community members about the harmful effect of racism and after that issuing penalties for any person do that illegal.

Reflection -1

                                          Reflection -1  

                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDXUO9XSHiw&feature=youtu.be

• I have learned that the youngest one must serve the coffee and he have to serve it with his right hand, the madkan is always served when people come to your house as hospitality, also that alkahl is away of looking good that was used by men and women in the old days. after asking couple of tourist about there culture i have learned more and more.
• Another thing that i learned is how to use camera for shooting a video and how to edit it to make a completed film .
• after doing the video i have learned many thing about my culture and other cultures.
• The first thing that i learned after we are done with the video is the benefits of cooperative working.
• I was always thinking that it is not easy to make a video because it need perfect photographer, professional cameras to shoot the subjects and have the knowledge yo edit the film.
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Portfolio - Exercise #4

Everest climbing team - Portfolio - Exercise #4

Everest climbing team: Cultural Diversity

Watch the film and take notes to answer the following questions:

1.    List the team members by name, with their duties and country

Name                         Responsibility                     Country                     Skills

-- Jamling find ways to the top of mountains India Guide (Nepal)

- Seggara make roads on mountains Spain Mountain climbing(Spain)

- Roger researching rocks Geologist(England)

- ED victor lead his team USA Leader(USA)

- Sumio recording the trip details Documentary(japan)

- Paul

2.    What were the qualities or skills of each member that benefited the team?

most of them were climbers and few had different skills

3.    How was the Team helped by ‘cultural diversity’ to attain their goal (reach the summit of Everest)?

      everyone used his own cultural diversity and helped each other and they presented their cultural diversity among  all of the climbers and the others they helped each other while everyone was from a different country and different cultural

Portfolio exercise #1

Introduction to Diversity – Portfolio exercise #1

Think!

·         Who lives in the UAE?

·         How many Emiratis are there?

·         What other nationalities and culturally diverse groups are there?

·         Do you know any population statistics? (For the UAE, for the separate Emirates?)

Task 1

With a partner, research on the internet to find information about UAE demographics.

Nationality	Percentage/Number	Year	Source
Emirati	16.6%	2009	Wikipedia.com
Other Arabs	23.0%	2009	Wikipedia.com
South Asian	42.3%	2009	Wikipedia.com
Other Asian	12.1%	2009	Wikipedia.com
Other expatriates	6.0  %	2009	Wikipedia.com

Religions	Percentage	Year	Source
Islam	76  %	2005	Wikipedia.com
Hinduism & indian religions	15  %	2005	Wikipedia.com
Christianity	9    %	2005	Wikipedia.com

Do the results surprise you? yes

Comments? Conclusions? The people still increased in United Arab Emirates.

porfillio exersice #2

porfillio exersice #2

Quiz 1 -

 

What is Cultural Diversity

Read the UNESCO report. True or False? If FALSE, write the TRUE answer.

1. At least 6000 different languages exist in the world.	True
2. Over 200 million people live outside the country where they were born.	False
3. One aspect of Human Rights is respecting different cultures.	True
4. Cultural Diversity means a lack of respect for freedom of thought.	False
5. Cultural Diversity can make a society stronger.	True

Vocabulary practice. Define in your own words:

1. Heterogeneous : something mixed with different kind of her origin

2. Plurality : Plurality means " most " for example we can say " In culture diversity course the Plurality of the content will be talking about the countries and their tradition "

3. Migration :a person or a group leave thier country for any reason

4. Fundamental : basic of somthing

5. Collective strength : as in any thing the group make a power so its a collective power

Now read the rest of the article, and answer these questions by researching on the internet.

1. The article mentions food as an example of Cultural Diversity. Can you think of something else which could add interest and richness in a culturally diverse country?

Education : the education in uae one of their targets to teach the pupils many different cultures so 
they migrate them to study outboard . and bring teachers from word wide .

2. Name three ways in which people of different cultures can help a country to function in the new global economy.

        - sharing ideas in social network

        - open variety cultures resturants

        - Immigration

3. From the internet, in relation to Cultural Diversity, find a picture and a definition of “Melting pot” and “Garden salad”.

      

  - Melting pot: it shows how it could the different societies mixed together.

       - Garden salad: a variety of salad with fresh vegetables

4    . Britain today is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. Look on the internet and find out which  nationalities make up the “ethnic minority population of over 4 million”. 
       The ethnicity of the British citizens from Romans, Celts, Russian.

5. Australia is another of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. The University of Melbourne has a policy on Cultural Diversity. Read the two paragraphs and summarize them in your own words.

 The university put some policy and rules which strike any truism.

Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:

Varied	same	Increasingly	decreasingly	Respecting	Ignoring
Strength	Weakness	Improving	worsen	Inclusive	Exclusive
Majority	minority	Tolerance	Intolerance	Equality	discrimination

Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:

Diverse	multiple	Creative	Productive	Uniqueness	singularity
Dignity	respect	Integrated	together	Asset	Treasure
Global	Universal	Benefit	profit