Final Reflection

 

Throughout this course I had learned many things that would help me how to act with people from other cultures.

In this course i had done from  many exercise and research that helped me to know the culture diversity .We had done from a short video that describes emirates heritage that learned us more about our fathers and how they lived in the past at was an amazing experience that makes us proud about our heritage and tradition, there are some exercise about the isms  that describe the discriminating and stereotyping between cultures and people for example,  Some culture had a sexism  which means  to discriminate on the basis of their gender and some  had an racism which is  term which is used for discriminating people on the basis of ethnocentricity .

Moreover, we had learned the iceberg which shows the concept of culture and it contains surface culture which is easily seen between people and shallow culture it is hard to see it and deep culture which is not seen between people and the melting bolt describes the Chinese and Russia and Irish and Mexican how they involved with American culture.

These are some concept of the culture that would help us today and in future how to act with other culture and that makes us delete the world discrimination from our dictionary and all the people around the world are the same no matter what color of their skin or their eyes are, this experience changed my life to be a good person.

Ethnocentrism Assignment

 

 

List three examples of ethnocentrism from history:

a. The Mandate of Heaven

b. Nazi Germany

c.   European Imperialism

 

 

List three examples of ethnocentrism in recent times:

 

a. Rwanda

b. Bosnia Hertzegovina

c. Darfur

 

 

3.   What problems does ethnocentrism cause?

 

- Ethnocentrism causes racism and prejudice.

 

 

 

What is “ethnic cleansing”?

 

- removing or killing people who belong to an ethnic group that is different from the ruling group in a country.

Quiz 1 - What is 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
3. One aspect of Human Rights is respecting different cultures.	TRUE
4. Cultural Diversity means a lack of respect for freedom of thought.	FALSE
5. Cultural Diversity can make a society stronger.	TRUE

 

 

 

 

 

Vocabulary practice. Define in your own words:

 

 

 

1. Heterogeneous : different people from other countries live in same place

 

 

 

2. Plurality: a large number of people and things

 

 

 

3. Migration: move to another country  and live there

 

 

 

4. Fundamental : basic or major

 

 

 

5. Collective strength:  power of group

 

 

 

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?

 

Life  style  , music , habits

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Foods , clothes  , electronics .

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

                                

                                

 

 

 

 

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”. According to the 2011 Census, the ethnic composition of the United Kingdom was as set out in the table below.

 

 

 

Ethnic group	2011 population	2011%
White: Total	55,010,359	87.1
Gypsy/Traveller/ Irish Traveller: Total	63,193	0.1
Asian or Asian British: Indian	1,412,958	2.3
Asian or Asian British: Pakistani	1,174,983	1.9
Asian or Asian British: Bangladeshi	451,529	0.7
Asian or Asian British: Chinese	433,150	0.7
Asian or Asian British: Other Asian	861,815	1.4
Asian or Asian British: Total	4,373,339	4.7
Black or Black British: Total	1,904,684	3.0
Mixed Multiple: Total	1,250,229	2.0
Other Ethnic Group: Total	580,374	0.9
Total	63,182,178	100

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

University engorge student in different cultures to interact. The University will accept all ethnic groups.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:

 

 

Varied	Similarity	Increasingly	Decreasingly	Respecting	Being rude
Strength	WEEKNIES	Improving	Getting worse	Inclusive	exclusive
Majority	MINORITY	Tolerance	Hate	Equality	racism

 

 

 

 

 

Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:

 

 

 

Diverse	varied	Creative	Inventive	Uniqueness	Special
Dignity	Self respect	Integrated	United	Asset	Benefit
Global	international	Benefit	Positive