Reflective Essay 4

Reflective Essay 4

  In this Essay I would like to talk about Famous Quotations and especially about three Quotations I liked. First I will talk about who said it, when he said it and where that was. Finally I will talk about the Quote and explain it.

      The first Quote I choose was for Ruth Fulton Benedict American cultural anthropologist. ‘’In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture’’ Said Benedict. She meant in here Quote that not only who built a country must be from the same race they can be from different races.

      My second Quote I choose for this essay was taken from H.H.Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Quotes the previous president of the United Arab of Emiratis. “A country is not measured by the size of its area on the map. A country is truly measured by its heritage and culture” said Sheikh Zayed. He means that the countries are not evaluated by the size, the country evaluated by it tradition and culture.

     The last Quote I liked was for Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. “I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character” said Martin. He means that one day will came and there will not be difference between colored people and people will just look at what you can do or what you are capable of.

   Finally I hope you enjoyed and this was the best Quotes I have read about culture and I hope you like it and try to follow them to improve our lives.

Quotations by Famous People

LSS 2053 Cultural Diversity Learning Objective 3

Quotations by Famous People:

 

	Speaker and Date	Quotation	Meaning
	Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953	A people* that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. * means “a race of people”	Person that values its excellence above its principles soon loses both.
	Martin Luther King Jr.	All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.	Every man needs to choose between hard decisions.
	H.H.Sheik Zayed	"A nation without a past is a nation without a present or a future. Thanks to God, our nation has a flourishing civilization, deep-rooted in this land for many centuries. These roots will always flourish and bloom in the glorious present of our nation and in its anticipated future.”	Any country that doesn’t value its past, can’t appreciate its present or future. This country, thanks to God, has a rich past, does well for now and its expected future.
	Mohandas Gandhi	A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and souls of its people.	The country culture depends on the people lives in it.
	Aldous Huxley	Traditions deserve to be respected only insofar as they are respectable – that is, exactly insofar as they themselves respect the fundamental rights of men and women.	Traditions that respect their own have to be respected.
	ML King Jr.	God is not merely interested in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.	God doesn’t care about skin color. God cares about freedom for everyone.
	Desmond Mpilo Tutu	My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.	No matter what happens we will be humans.
	Frank Borman	“When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?”	Looking at the earth from space, one wonders why we can’t get along decently.
	Pablo Casals	The love of one’s country is a splendid thing, but why should it stop at the border?	We love our country but we will not hate other countries.
	Dwight David Eisenhower 1961	The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all	If people of the world can’t get along, nothing will work.
	H.H.Sheikh Zayed 1970	Many countries go to war and then towards reconciliation. The history of mankind is full of stories of wars between people and states that have come together after fighting for long. Why can't Arabs be like them?	All countries go to war and after that became friends unlike the Arabs.
	Martin Luther King, Jr	I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.	One day will came and the color skin or Religions will not be matter, what will matter is what can you do what you capable to do, that what people will be looking at.

 

ETHNOCENTRISM TASK

Ethnocentrism

 

1. What is Ethnocentrism.

Ethnocentrism is thinking that your ethnic group is better than others in skin color, races or religion. For example in UAE many kids say that there country is better than other and sometime this leads them to fight between each other.

2. Read the cartoon. How is Ethnocentrism reflected in the conversation below?

 

Write your answer below. That most people doesn’t know about other cultures or they don’t want to know about them and that they are the only culture in the world and whatever others do is strange and idiot  because its different from them.

3. Looking at the cartoon characters.

 

Imagine them in social situations. What kind of people would (would n’t) they associate with? What kind of events (movies, shows) would (would n’t) they prefer to go? Think of other situations.

·         Describe Bucky

 

He doesn’t like to be with people different from his Religion, nationality, and color. In Conclusion he doesn’t want to be with people different from him in any way.  

 

·         Describe the man talking with Bucky.

 

He is a social, he likes to hear or to be with people who are different from him. Also he likes to watch things that talks about different cultures.  

 

4. Drawing Ethnocentrism.

 

On a separate sheet of paper, make a drawing of Ethnocentrism. You don’t have to draw well.

 

 

 

 

 

Reflective essay 2

Reflective Essay

       

     In my reflective essay I will talk about cultural diversity especially in Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination. I will define each term and give some examples that I have seen or heard about. Next I will talk about how my learning will be useful in the society and I hope it will make me better. Finally I will give my opinion and recommendations.

  

      Stereotyping is a thought process that organizes beliefs about one group of people and assigns them to everyone in that group. An example of stereotyping would be that you believe that Indian people like curry, while it might be a popular spice, I'm confident that not all Indian people like curry.  Prejudice is an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought or reason. For example my brother thinks that all Egyptians are liars because he knows an Egyptian man lies all the time. Discrimination is making a decision based solely on an individual's race, religion, ethnicity, cultural creed, sex or age, creating an unfair environment. An example I saw at my work that a Syrian employee works hard for 5 years and he doesn’t get promoted because he is Syrian.

   

       Unfortunately what have been mentioned early is real problems and we face it a lot of it in our lives and I hope this will be eliminate or reduced because this can create hatred between people and this destroy whatever we done before.  

 

    

 

Presentation (manifestation of prejudice and discrimination)

 

 



Introduction from Mhamed1985

song lyrics

            

•  Can you recommend another song which deals with a similar subject?

         

•  Do you think music can help to unite people?

yes, I do because most people listens to music so it will be easy if you want to send a massage to the world and also people are so sensitive when they listen to music.

comments on the video “Mind Your Language”

The video:

 

Comments: The video is funny and nice and show us the problems that people face in their lives; however this funny nice video we saw can or it leads us to Grudge.

Course Goals 1 Revision

LSS 2053 Course Goal 1 Revision

1.    Which types of Cultural Diversity exist at ADMC? Give an example from each of the ten categories in your table of ten. Say whether each one is a Challenge or a Benefit.

 

Category	Examples at ADMC	Challenge & Benefit
1. Religion	All Students Muslims but teacher from many religion	Benefit (to learn how to respect other people Religion by looking to the way they trait you).
2. Age	Teenagers and old people	Challenge (because the ideas or thinking of old people is different from teenagers) Benefit (we can learn a lot from old people).
3. Language	Arabic, English , and Indian	Challenge (hard to comminute with each other) Benefit (You can learn many languages).
4. Gender	Male and Female	Benefit (because it will get rid of our old thinking that the Female must stay in home).
5. Nationality	All Students Emirates but teachers from 40 different countries	Benefit (different way in teaching style and learn about different cultures).
6. Educational background of students	Some have finished 2 or more semesters but others have come from school	Challenge (Difficult for new students)Benefit (the experienced students  can teach the freshmen
8. Clothes	Disdasha, Pants, T-shirts, Dresses and skirts.	Benefit (it will not makes you feel bored)
9. Food	Italian, Western and Arabic	Benefit (makes you try different type of all the time)

 

 

2.    Define and give an example of Acculturation.

Acculturation: The process of learning the culture of the host country.

 EX. This is important if you go abroad to study or work.

 

3.    Explain how child-raising in different cultures can have an effect on personality.

Because it can affect the way children grow up and communicate with others. A very strict upbringing could lead to a shy, withdrawn personality. These are ideas, not fact.

 

 

4.     Explain the difference between a “melting pot” and a “garden salad” related to immigration to a country such as UK, USA, Australia for example.

 

Immigration: moving from the birth country to another country to live and work, for economic reasons usually.

 

Melting Pot: all the immigrants used to be required to lose their birth identity and culture on arrival in the new country. They had to become assimilated or the same as everyone else in the host country. (That was the way in the past).

 

Garden Salad: immigrants to a new country such as Australia can keep their birth identity and culture, as well as learning the host country’s culture. This is acculturation.

 

5.     How can Multiculturalism have a positive effect on a large company?

 

Multiculturalism in company makes have fun by knowing new things in different cultures. Multiculturalism will the companies to improve their business by getting new ideas from the employers this due to their different way of thinking and solving problems this will help the company to improve their funds.

 

week 4- Reflective task 2- what are the challenges & benefits of cultural Diversity?

Challenges & benefits of Cultural Diversity………

 

Cultural Diversity means different kind of people from different countries having different cultures living in one country. In this essay I will talk about cultural diversity challenges that can face us in our life also, I will talk about the benefits from cultural diversity.

Cultural diversity challenges. The challenges we can face is the difficulty in understanding each other this due to, the different languages we speak, to be more specific people coming from their countries doesn’t know your language however, there beliefs and thinking are different from yours. Although you can gain bad habits from other cultures for example some cultures consider drinking alcohol or taking drugs is fine but, that opposes your culture. Racism is the biggest challenge countries are facing due to, the uneducated people in the country. However, benefits of cultural diversity helped a lot. First of all, it helped countries to improve their educational system, economy, and a lot of things by having new ideas and new ways of thinking. Second, the people who live in the host country loved the cultural diversity because it made their life enjoyable by have different kinds of food, cloths, languages and knowing about people culture. This cultural diversity can change your life to the better.

 Cultural diversity can change any host country to become one of the best countries in the world this was my point of view. I hope all people understand the cultural diversity and try to improve it by respecting each other.      

Week 4 - Quiz

Quiz – What are Multiculturalism, Assimilation and Acculturation?

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, Multiple
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”	False, Assimilation
5.       Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	False, Of the host country

 

Define in your own words:

1.       “Melting Pot” Forgetting your old culture and totally adopting to the new one.

2.       “Salad Bowl” People live in new country with keeping their home tradition.

3.       “Assimilation” The blending of minority groups into the dominant society.

4.       “Acculturation” Is a process in which members of one cultural group adopt the beliefs, behaviors, habits and language of the dominant group. 

5.       “Enculturation” Behavior and beliefs reflect home country culture.

Complete the sentence with words from the text:

Acculturation often results in changes to          Culture           ,                    Customs                         and

    Social                  , as well as changes in food,                        Clothing                       and

              Language.

Give a synonym:

Varied	different	respect	Honor	Dominate	Control
Multiple	many	central	Main, major	Interacting	dealing
Specific	Certain	represents	Shows	Adopt	Take on

 

Give the opposite:

Varied	Same	respect	Disrespect	Gradually	Suddenly
Multiple	Single	common	Uncommon, rare	dominant group	Minority group
Specific	General, unspecific	contrasted with	Compared with	Adopt	Reject

 

Culture and Personality in Anthropology

 

Read the section about Culture and Personality in Anthropology. Answer these questions about that section:-

1.      Define “Anthropology” in your own words

To study the behavior on the culture diversity point of view.

2.      Define “movement” in this context

Area of study.

3.      What do you understand by “socialization of children” Give an example

Teach the children how to talk, eat and respect.

4.      Read this sentence again and give examples of childrearing in different societies and cultures: “socialization creates personality patterns. It helps shape people’s emotions, thoughts, behaviors, cultural values and norms to fit into and function as productive members in the surrounding human society. The study of culture and personality demonstrates that different socialization practices such as childrearing in different societies (cultures) result in different personality types.”

·        Children should be seen and not heard.

·        Children never gave their opinion.

·        Children mustn’t answer to a person older than them.

5.      Read this sentence again and say to what extent you agree: “all humans are the same when born, but childrearing in different societies causes deviations in behavior and personalities from each other.”

Strongly agree.

6.      Reflect on the reading above. Can you see a link between your culture and your personality? Think about that in relation to your own culture first, and then think about personality and culture in a different society. Reflect. Give examples.

Yes, for example in my country or culture people like to talk with another people to be helpful and friendly because that what we rose on, but in another countries or cultures people don’t like to talk to another because the raised to be lonely and don’t talk to somebody you don’t know.