Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Ethnocentrism Assignment – Exercise #7 EXTRA



Ethnocentrism Assignment – Exercise #7 EXTRA  
1.     Read about Ethnocentrism on Edmodo (Week #6)

  Ethnocentric individuals judge other groups relative to their own ethnic group or culture, especially with concern for language , behavior, customs, and religion .
 
2.    List three examples of ethnocentrism from history

A- Nazi Germany
B- he Mandate of Heaven
C- European Imperialism


3.    What country is known for being ethnocentric today?

Groups like : Irish, Greek and Italian in American society

4.    What is the famous quote from Shylock which reminds all of us of our humanity?

In Literature

"If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not seek revenge?"

The "us" that Shylock is referring to are Jews.



5.    Look at the two maps of ethnocentric Americans and ethnocentric Indians.



6.    Now make your own map showing how Emiratis see the world:

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Adverse Reactions to Diversity – Portfolio exercise #6









Course:      Cultural Diversity                                  Code:  LSSS N205



Name: Abdullah Sultan                      ID# H00269055              




With a partner, please answer the following. You may use internet resources to help you.


1.      Define:

a.       Stereotyping : its mean you take an idea for a lot of people from small group

b.      Prejudice : Prejudging a book by its cover it could be a positive or negative attitude.

c.       Bias : To influence someone or something in a way that is unfair

d.      Discrimination : it is a behavior where it treats people unequally.

2.      Give an example of each.




1- All doctors are smart

2- All emiraties are rich.
 
3- Black People are good at sports.

4- All weightlifters are dumb 

Watch  Class Divided

ü Understanding

With partners, answer the following:

1.       Where, when and with whom did this experiment take place?

In 1950, primary school in a grade 3 classroom


2.       Describe the experiment.

It was by the different in the color of the eye in one day the teacher say the child with blue eye


Smarter than the brown and in the next day the teacher say the brown eye is smarter than blue


3.       What were the results?

Each of them heat each author , Finally they realize there’s no different between the blue and brown eyes.



4.       How successful do you believe it was?

I think it was Very successful and they learned that there is no racism


Going Deeper - Extra

In groups of four, discuss the following:

Ø  a time she or he experienced prejudice or discrimination

I was in America, when I tell them I am from Dubai every time they ask me about how it's beauty but they saw us as strangers !

Ø  a time she or he discriminated against somebody else

A lot of people hate the Iranians residing in the United Arab Emirates , there may be a distinction between them and I've seen a lot of these problems.

Ø  a time she or he witnessed discrimination and did nothing about it

I have seen a Saudi man hits a cleaner Indian because he did not complete his work to the fullest 


Ø  a time she or he witnessed discrimination and did something about it

I saw the manager hits worker in the shop because he was delayed in attendance to work , so I went to the manager and advised him and also went to the other person and i eased his pain by using some beautiful words

Monday, October 21, 2013

My project video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPHXW-XV240



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I have done a movie about UAE culture with my classmates Abdulaziz, Ahmed and Abdullah. We all know that the most important thing that make the group succeed is team work, so we divide the work between us, and we started collecting the ideas, informations and the pictures from different places. Also, we interviewed tourist and we asked her a several questions about our culture and We talked about more than one thing like past uses. In addition, our conclusion was a quote of sheikh Zayed and Life in the United Arab Emirates earlier. As a result, our movie was the best and all of them liked it.