Reflective Essay 5

Reflective Essay 5

In cultural Diversity course I learned a lot. The first thing I learned is the meaning of words that it is related to culture. Also I learned about how people were thinking that they are better than other people and how they are different from each other. In cultural Diversity course I learned about the people who fought to be equal also it taught me that all people are same. I learned a lot in this course. I learned that all of us are same it doesn’t matter from where we came or what language we speak or what is our skin color is.  In this course I learn that we have to respect each other culture and don’t make fun of it. In conclusion I would like to say that this course is important to everybody because it will change the thinking of people about other cultures. I advise this course to be tough because it’s helpful also because it change my thinking about other cultures before I think that my culture is the best culture in the world but after I took this course I Knew that all cultures are same. Before I can judge the people live in a country by seeing one person behavior but now I can’t do it because I learned about this things. My advice to the collage is to keep teaching this course to the next generations.  

SOUTH AFRICA (Final Project)

THE PRESENTATION

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)

 

 



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