Reflection #4

Gap Years

Gap years are very underestimated by people and this it’s a waste of time but what they don’t realize is that they have great significance and useful benefits. Some of the benefits are that you can take some time off to travel to other places and thus, gaining amazing knowledge and skills from other countries. The other benefit is to travel to other countries and experience different aspects of their citizen. The citizens of UAE do not consider taking a gap year because they think it’s a waste of time but actually it can be useful to them because they have difficult schools with strong education so they won’t have time to rest. Taking a gap year after finishing high school can be very useful for they can travel to other countries to learn about different cultures or start working for a year to experience and have knowledge of working and its hardships but rewards. I would like to have a gap year so I could travel to Japan. There, I would love to see the technology and futuristic machines and also, I heard that the sushi is fantastic there. Also, the UAE has some great connections with the friendly country of Cambodia like trading natural resources and exchanging culture from one another. For example, Cambodia sends the UAE some rare vegetables and in exchange, they receive oil. Also, they can send them their knowledge of nature and commerce and in exchange, the UAE sends some teachers and educators to educate their children and advance their knowledge of the world.

Reflection- #3

When I was in Dubai at Eid there was a line at Starbucks and people where polite standing in lain and there is some people trying to sneak in but they couldn’t but there is one this local women who thinks she’s better than the world she grabbed her bag and walked to the front of the lain she didn’t say excuse me or something she kept on pushing people and take their turns I had to speak to her cause that’s rude !! I was like you shouldn’t go in the lain just whenever you want cause its rude and she replied to me I am a local women I have the rights to be first I told her I’m a local man also you don’t see me saying anything like that and the people at the lain took a bad thinking about the local women she kept on saying im from Dubai I have the rights here, she knew I was from Abu Dhabi cause of the accent. She still wanted to be first and kept nagging I’m a local women that made us people feel like she’s the queen or something I gave her my place since I was close to the counter but the way she said I’m a local women it’s not the right way of saying it to people its rude to say that and it affects the whole country not only the women cause people would think every local person is the same and acts the same rude.

Portfolio Exercise #6 - Stereotyping & Blue Eyes Video

Goal 2 Adverse Reactions to

 

Diversity – 2012 - Semester

Course:      Cultural Diversity                                  Code:  LSS N2053

Name:          Mohamed Fawzi Alyafei                                                 ID# :  H00247307   

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

1.      Define:

a.    Stereotyping: is when you judge a group of people who are different from you based on your own and/or others opinions and/or encounters.

b.      Prejudice: The fact of unfairness; To hate someone for what they are.

c.       Bias: unreasonable judgment.

d.      Discrimination: Action based on prejudice or racist beliefs that results in unfair treatment of individuals or groups

2.      Give an example of each term

Stereotypes: Muslims are terrorists.

Prejudice: all Sudanese are lazy.

Bias: like saying White People, Black People.

Discrimination: dont speak to these people they are blue eyed people. 

Watch  Class Divided

ü Understanding

With partners, answer the following:

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

1969 , ipublic school with 3rd graders .n the USA  , 

2.      Describe the experiment.  

Blue eyes people are better than brown eyes they were treated differently then they switched places

3.      What were the results?

1st experiment : the brown eyes felt bad and insulted the next day the blue eyes got to feel the same feelings

4.      How successful do you believe it was? they got happy and knew respecting other instead of judging 

who are the Americans !! Portfolio exercise #4

Who are the Americans?

Discuss and note your ideas

Who lives in America? Where did they come from? When?

Spain,  from Europe in 17^th centure

Have you seen any films about people emigrating to America? Which?

no

Were there any immigrants on The Titanic?

Yes there was

Research

Look at this website and study the data, especially the ‘by region’ information to find out where Americans come from: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/immigration_data/

1. Explore the historical timeline to see where the immigrants arrived from in different eras. Choose one link from ‘A New Land’, ‘Expanding America’ and ‘A Place of Refuge’ menus and note: Where did the people come from and why did they go to America.

A New Land:

Expanding America:

A Place of Refuge:

2. Look at the ‘Building a Modern America’ – ‘A Multicultural America’ page. What information can you find about recent US immigration?

3. Now click on ‘Explore Ellis Island’ and answer the questions. (There is 1 question per page.)

·         Where did immigrants land when they arrived in America? Ellies island in 1892 and 1954

·         How long did it take to cross the Atlantic? Week or 2

·         What was the first thing people saw in America? Statue of liberty

·         What did the officers give the immigrants? Names

·         What did the doctors do while the people walked upstairs? Check on them

·         Why couldn’t women enter America alone? Cause it would be hard starting a life for them alone

·         What did the chalk marks X and P mean? What happened to those people?

·         How many questions did they ask immigrants?

·         When did pre-departure health checks start?

·         What facilities were available at the bottom of the stairs?

·         What happened at ‘The Kissing Post’?

Think!

When people come to work in the UAE, what must they do? (Paperwork, procedures, tests…)

America is a multicultural society; it is culturally diverse. It is not a ‘melting pot’, it is more like a ‘salad bowl’. Americans often talk about being ‘first generation’, ‘second generation’ or third generation’ immigrants. ‘First generation’ is term used for the children of immigrants, ‘second generation’ is the term for the grandchildren of immigrants, so ‘third generation’ is ……………………………………………………? By the second or third generation, the connection with the immigrant’s country may be very weak or non-existent so we can say that these people have assimilated into the culture. Over the years, some people and cultural groups have assimilated into American society. They have blended and are examples of assimilation. When two cultures meet, acculturation happens. This is the meeting of the cultures and the process of adapting to each other and adopting new behaviours, which can be a one-way or two-way process. However, some groups may keep many of the customs, traditional ways and characteristics of their home culture even though they adapt to the new country. These people have acculturated by adopting new behaviours in their new country, but they have not assimilated. Immigrants and the first generation may acculturate but not assimilate, but later generations may be assimilated.

Think again!

Why do/did some people/groups assimilate and others do/did not?

Diversity and Personal Conduct - Vocabulary : portfolio exercise #4

Find the definition OR synonym  of each of the words:           

1.   Civility / civilized : culture

2.   Acknowledge: accede

3.   Inclusive / inclusion : all the options

4.   Respect: account

5.   Apology: admission

6.   Consideration : concern

7.   Behavior : act

8.   Responsibility : albatross

9.   Attention (pay) : advice

10.               Tolerance : charity

11.               Attitude (positive) : point of view

12.               Conduct : care

13.               Politeness : charm

14.               Constructive (comment) : adorning

15.               Kindness : affection

Now, search through the You-Tube site to find a clip that shows cultural respect and politeness. Copy the URL onto your sheet and post as: Portfolio #4. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LILg2EXyBQ0&feature=fvst

Reflection #2 - Cultural Diversity

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

1.       A Multicultural society can be described as a society with a single set of values.	False/ its a multiple cultures
2.       A “salad bowl” represents varied and separate cultures.	True
3.       One aspect of Multiculturalism is respecting different cultures.	True
4.       Cultural Diversity can be represented by a “melting pot”	True
5.       Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	False/ learning another culture along with the other first culture

Define in your own words:

1.       “Melting Pot”: blending of cultures.

2.       “Salad Bowl”: culture mixed together to make a unique culture.

3.       “Assimilation”: blending culture to make it similar 

4.       “Acculturation”: adding culture and stay different 

5.       “Enculturation”: have a second culture and use it as his first culture 

Complete the sentence with words from the text:

Acculturation often results in changes to     Culture     ,      Customs     and                             social institution      , as well as changes in food,         Clothing       and          Language    .

Give a synonym:

varied	one	respect	disrespect	dominate	control
multiple	several	central	middel	interacting	communicate
specific	general	represents	meaning	adopt	select

Give the opposite:

varied	homogeneous	respect	disrespect	gradually	rapidlly
multiple	few	common	individual	dominant group	minority group
specific	general	contrasted with	similer to	adopt	reject

Personal Reflection #2 – Integrating Special needs Individuals into society

Based on our 2053 class discussions and my research into the future

center and paralympics i can reflect on how people can be better integrated into society in these ways.

The future center helps people who are mental challenged to gain there goals to win in the paralympics they used to have a villa where they train them but now since they grown and the people started to grow they got a center where they could let more people join and the be good in there sport hobbies running, basketball, tennis , table tennis, swimming...etc.

The staff and students have faced few challenges where they handled now, the staff faced some difficulties in providing the proper facilities for the students so there offerings were limited, and the students had a difficulty to communicating with eachother cause of there different disabilities and different cultures.

They achieved so many things including preparing the disabled children with the proper skills they need in order to joing the regular school, the children who stay in the center (due to their level of disability) participate in many activities like joining the Olympics for the special needs.

There goals are to extend the center and opportunity’s to have a better life with giving them the necessary skills to enable them to reach their potential, the future center is working on becoming a leading institution with standards and best practices.

The center has a multinational team od specialists and students, as the website stated regarding the students “50% comes from the UAE and other half from about twenty nationalities, with degreees of severity between mild to moderate”which means that this center is a culturally diverse environment. 

Everest climbing team: Cultural Diversity

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

-Ed Vesters                Team Leader                          U.S.A                    Climbing

-Araceli seggara         Climber                                   Spain                    Climbing

-sumiyo                     Decampment                           Japan                    

-Roger Diham           Scientist                                  England                Geologist  

-Jamling Norgate       Guide                                     Nepal                     Climbing

-Sharpa                     Deliver  food                                                         Climbing

-Paula                      Camp Manager                         U.S.A                    Climbing

 

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

They were mostly climbers and smart in planing the climbing map of the mountain 

 

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

     there are more then one country and everyone brought a help to the group they united and everyone used his culture to do his job and they combined each culture to make it to the top and survive helped each-other and did a great job that's how they combined there culture they achieved there goal on reaching the top of the mountain 

portfoilo assignment #4 - 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, its 175 million people live outside the country they were born at
3.       One aspect of Human Rights is respecting different cultures.	True
4.       Cultural Diversity means a lack of respect for freedom of thought.	False, it means respecting for freedom of thoughts.
5.       Cultural Diversity can make a society stronger.	True

Vocabulary practice. Define in your own words:

1.       Heterogeneous : verity

2.       Plurality: majority 

3.       Migration: the act of movement from your country to another

4.       Fundamental: Basic 

5.       Collective strength: collect strength between people 

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?

great thinking, creative

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

            1-language,

            2- solve problems 

            3-communicating skills 

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

melting pot: its different cultures get together in 1 country and be a 1 culture.

Garden salad: different cultures combined to make a 1 unique culture. 

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”.

     

-     -Indian, Bangladesh, Dark Africans, Pakistan's. 

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 of Melbourn is a affirm that cultural diversity encompass differences based on race, ethnicity, language,religion, value and beleif systems, disability, class, gender, age and education background.

Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:

Varied	one	Increasingly	decreasingly	Respecting	Disrespecting
Strength	weak	Improving	unimproved	Inclusive	exclusive
Majority	minority	Tolerance	intolerance	Equality	unequal

Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:

Diverse	assorted	Creative	aesthetic	Uniqueness	exceptionable
Dignity	address	Integrated	arrange	Asset	aid
Global	all-around	Benefit	account	Harmony	arrangement