Final course reflection

Final course reflection

Culture diversity is one of the best courses I had got this semester. I was inspired by the way we studied it and I have a lot of benefits from this course in my life, it changed my thinking way to the people around me and the different cultures. Also, doing my projects alone taught me how to depend on myself.

one of the best classes that I have enjoyed is about different –isms and ethnocentrism because I have now a lot of knowledge of how people treat others that are different from them. I also enjoyed the class of Emirati project because it was the first time for me to interview tourists, and it was interesting because I felt that I was doing something important in the project as a female. The third class that I have enjoyed is the one that taught us how to inhabit with multicultural and also how to deal with different people from different cultures.

It is important to learn about Cultural Diversity to understand the people's behaviors and how to deal and communicate with all people even if they have a lot of differences. Also it teaches us how to fight racism and how to treat people in a good way and respect them no matter what is their nationalities, jobs, colours..etc

I think that the best age for the students to learn about Cultural Diversity is from entering the primary school, because from their first day in school they will be meeting children from different countries, cultures, religions and also there are poor and rich students.

The most interested thing I learnt this course is about racism, I knew now a lot of things; like how people are treating others. For example: how a bad manager is treating his employees, how a housewife is treating her maid, how rich people is treating poor people. Of course there are some people that have good manners and treat each other in a very good way and don't pay attention to the differences between them. I also learned that no matter how, people must respect others and fight racism.

 

Regarding the harmony day, I want it to be called The UAE Culture day; like everyone from all cultures can participate and the place must be decorated in a way that combine all cultures and traditions. So everyone can do something different to let the people that visit the place learn about different cultures. It is better to have that day in winter so the weather will be good and suitable for everyone to come and visit the place.

 

In conclusion, I liked this course a lot because it taught me a lot of things about different cultures, and also about my Emirati culture and traditions.

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Exercise#10

 

Blog Exercise 10A: Write a reflection of 50-100 words (#10A) about modern slavery today. What do you think?? Figure out how many slaves work for you. And post on your blog.

 

 

Slavery is an old bad thing that happening in our world, I saw the two videos I felt sorry for the slaves in somewhere, they thought that if they will get a number of dollars but after they arrive to this place they get shock that the contract with less salary, there are many places in world to do this thing specifically the rich countries. These hard workers have human rights and the rights should be given to them.

 

 

 

I build my house on www.slaveryfootprint.org and I got the result that 73 slavers work for me.

 

 

Blog Exercise 10B: 

Add 50-100 words (#10B) to your reflection about

 

What else has the UAE done to try to ensure human rights for its workers and to stop human trafficking? Why is this important for the (your) government to take this stand??

 

 

 Our government ensure human rights for the workers, we have the freedom of speech but in a limit, freedom of religion that every person from any religion can do his prayers, we also have women rights, the trafficking is illegal in our country and the government make the best to stop this bad issue.

 

 

Giving people specially the workers they re rights is good thing, so its keep our country safe for the citizens and tourists.

 

 

 

Exercise #10c:

 

Ways to fight discrimination:

 

By Jackie Robinson:

 Collegiate athletics had been haphazardly integrated for decades. At UCLA, for example, Robinson starred in baseball, football, basketball, track, tennis, golf, and swimming .however,Fifty years ago, on April 18, 1946, Jackie Robinson broke organized baseball's color barrier with a characteristic bang, homering and scoring four runs in his historic first game for the Brooklyn Dodgers' top farm team and this anniversary will no doubt unleash a wave of media meditations, since it combines the two national pastimes of the American male intellectual: denouncing racism and waxing nostalgic over the Brooklyn Dodgers.

 

By Rosa Parks:

 

 

1) She was treated with disrespect, when she was told to move because of the loading of more white people it was because they believed her needs less important. This is against human rights because it was not treating her as an equal. At the time blacks everywhere were treated like this, her protest to move set off a chain of evens which begun the Civil Rights Movement.

Portfolio exercise #7

Portfolio exercise #7

Ethnocentrism Assignment : Portfolio exercise #7

1.    Read about Ethnocentrism

2.    List three examples of ethnocentrism from history

Nazi Germany (Adolf Hitler)

 Mandate of Heaven (Chinese philosopher Confucias.)

The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare)

3.    What country is known for being ethnocentric today?

United States of America

 What is the famous quote from Shylock which reminds all of us of our humanity?

the famous quote

"If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not seek revenge?"

5.    Look at the two maps of ethnocentric Americans and Ethnocentric Indians.

Ethnocentric America

Ethnocentric India

6.  Now make a map showing how Emiratis see the world.

Portfolio exercise #6

Adverse Reactions to Diversity – Portfolio exercise #6

 

 

Course:      Cultural Diversity                                  Code:  LSSS N205

name :Afra Salem                             ID:H00269693

 

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

 

Define:

a.   stereotyping :is having a bad idea about people.

b.   prejudice :un reason able opinion formed without enough knowledge.

c.   bias : the action of supporting a particular person in an unfair way.

d.   discrimination :to treat people differently especially in a worse way from the way in which treating other people.

2.   Give an example of each:-

1.   stereotyping :all Emiraties are rich , all Emiraties are lazy.

2.   prejudice :she is strictly prejudice but yet honest.

3.   bias: the lawyer had a clear evidence of a strong bias against the killer.

4.   discrimination :rich people discriminate poor people.

 

Watch  Class Divided

 

ü Understanding

 

With partners, answer the following:

1.       Where, when and with whom did this experiment take place?

·         In 1950 and the experience took place in school grade 3.

2.       Describe the experiment.

·         The instructor said in the first day that the blue eye students are clever and much better than brown eye students. the day after ,she said that students with brown eyes are supervisor and much better than blue eyes students. The goal of this experience is to teach them about discrimination practically.

3.       What were the results?

·         the students are pessimistic because they can't gather with each other.

4.       How successful do you believe it was?

·         it was an effective experiment because the children what does discrimination means.

 

Going Deeper - Extra

 

In groups of four, discuss the following:

v  a time she or he experienced prejudice or discrimination

·         one day I entered  a elevator with a lady, and there was a maid behind me but she pushed her out:(

v  a time she or he discriminated against somebody else

 

·         there was a man treating the people working with him bad because they were from India.  

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

·         there was a lady shouting at the cashier in the coup but her husband didn't interfere.

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

·         There was a white student always fighting with his classmate because he was black , and their teacher talked to him and stopped him.

. Portfolio exercise #4 - Everest Team

3. Portfolio exercise #4 - Everest Team

 

Everest climbing team: Cultural Diversity #4

 

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

- poula                         mangethe                             USA                            climber

- seggera                     camp                               spain                        climber

- jamling                      climber                                   wepal                          climber

- roger bilham             sctentist                               England                climber - sctentist

- chyangba                   cook                                china                       cook

- sumiyo tsucki              expenition                       Japan                      Photography

- Ed viesters                   leader                                     USA                         climber

 

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

You  must have a leader to give every one of the team to do something like cooking taking pictures of what are they doing and some body to manage the camp .

 

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

They all were one herd , helping each other like a family , cooperate and respect

 

 

 

Exercise - portfolio #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 : (made up of parts that are different)

 2. Plurality : (large number of things )

 3. Migration : (when people more from their country to another)

 4. Fundamental : (forming or relating to the most  important part of something  )

 5. Collective strength : (the power at number of people or things considered as one group )

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?

 1-clothes    2-Traditions.    3-language

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

1-bring the international big companies.

2-reduce the tax price or stop taxing.

3-help locals to build international companies

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