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.

People watching-Reflective task1

LSS 2053 Cultural Diversity

People-watching – Reflective task.

Observation Task:

Choose a location such as a café, the Corniche or a mall. Be alone or with a friend.

Sit and look around, and reflect on the scene.

Abu Dhabi Marina mall (Columbian café).

I see people from different nationalities, speaking different languages and wearing different clothes. I see people with Varity of ages and religions. I know that each one there have different way of thinking and have different believes. People there some are married some are single and some have children some haven’t. They are eating, chatting, drinking, laughing and ordering. Most of the people going there for relaxing but you can see some of them going there for business or solving problems. There was an interacting like one family in a group but some like to be official so much. Interacting with others from outside the group by smiling or watching and some can give them help if they need. All what I mention there depends on the home country culture and the parents.

   

week 1 lesson 1 (circle,defination, table)

LSS 2053 Cultural Diversity

Week 1 Lesson 1

 

1)      Put yourself in the centre. Around yourself put six people you know who are not Emirati. What makes them different from you? Their language, their ……

 

 

                Me

·         Name: Navita (Driver)

                        Religion: Christian

                        Gender: Female

                        Language: Philipino

·         Name: Carla (Doctor)

                         Religion: Christian

                         Gender: Female

                          Language: English

·         Name: Susan (Teacher)

                         Religion: Christian

                         Gender: Female

                         Language: English

·         Name: Hidait (Driver)

                        Age: 41

                        Religion: Christian

                        Language: Ardo         

·         Name: Alexandra (Teacher)

                        Religion: Christian

                        Gender: Female

                        Language: English

·         Name: Rita (home maid)

                        Religion: Hindu

                        Gender: Female

Language: Indian

             

 

 

 

2) Define yourself as an Emirati. Write a paragraph. Example – I was born in Abu Dhabi and my nationality is Emirati.

I’m an Emirati because I was born in Abu Dhabi also, my parents. I’m an Emirati because I got the Passport and Im broud to be an Emirati because this country helped a lot of countries and people and I think most the people from outside like the UAE due to what they hear about what this country did to help people.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3)Define Culture Diversity.

 

Main Category	Sub-Category	Examples
1.       Religion	Hindu, Muslim, Christian	My teacher is a Christian
2.       Age	Kids, Teenagers, old people	I’m  teenager
3.       Language	Arabic, French, English	My teacher speaks English
4.       Gender	Male, Female	I’m a male
5.       Nationality	Emirati, Egyptian, Indian	I have an Egyptian friend
6.       Educational	Diploma, higher diploma, Bachelor	My brother finished his Diploma
7.       History	Pyramids, Romeo & Juliet	Pyramids age more than thousand year
8.       Clothes	Disdasha, Pants, T-shirts	In UAE most people wear Disdasha
9.       Food	Pasta, Omelet, Biryani	My favorite food is biryani
10.   Traditions	Dancing with stick, Tomato festival	In UAE people dance with stick