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

Introduction to Diversity - Portfolio exercise #1

UAE Demographics:

Ethnic Groups	Percentage	Year	Source
emirates	22%	2012	looklex.com
Egyptians	5.5%	2012	looklex.com
Omanis	4.1%	2012	looklex.com
saudis	4%	2012	looklex.com
others	12%	2012	looklex.com

Religions	Percentage	Year	Source
Islam (sunni)	44%		looklex.com
islam (shi'i)	10%	2012	looklex.com
Hindusim	15%	2012	looklex.com
Buddhism	5%	2012	looklex.com
Christianity	9%	2012	looklex.com

1. Write a definition of cultural diversity in your own words.

its the cultural how to combine together and be one between cultures  

2. Give examples of cultural diversity in Abu Dhabi (Places of worship, organizations, etc.)

1-mosques 

2-church community 

3-catholic church

 

 

Reflection - #1

I'm Emirate 

Now days people are wondering what does it mean when u say "I'm Eimrate" every country has it own way of saying it, U.A.E is a great place wonderful full of traditions people who love to say they are from U.A.E not ashamed of the country and so proud that all of this happened in 40 years U.A.E is growing larger then anyone will suspect there's types of Emirates the bado ones who live mostly at the desert far away from the city and doesn't go inside the city except if they have something important to do most of there life is working and desert, they take care of animals and have like farms what we call it as "ezba".

There's so much family names here every family is originally from some other country, Me my self im originally from yeman but i got the U.A.E passport and i been born and raised here, our culture is kind and we accept everyone, U.A.E gave us everything provided us with needs and wants unlimited we drive cars and wear kandooras, our language is arabic but we can communicate with other people who speaks english but our first language is arabic cause its the language in arabic its the mother language is arabic and we are arabs