Week 2 Lesson 2 + Week 3 Lesson 1 What is Cultural Diversity Quiz

Quiz – What is Cultural Diversity?

Read the UNESCO report. True or False? If FALSE, write the TRUE answer.

At least 6000 different languages exist in the world.	True
Over 200 million people live outside the country where they were born.	False , it is around 175 million
One aspect of Human Rights is respecting different cultures.	True
Cultural Diversity means a lack of respect for freedom of thought.	False ,  respecting  other people culture
Cultural Diversity can make a society stronger.	True

Vocabulary practice. Define in your own words:

• Heterogeneous: Mixed together

• Plurality: many , several

• Migration: people leave the country and live in another country

• Fundamental: basic human rights

• Collective strength: combined force , plural power , group strength

Now read the rest of the article, and answer these questions by researching on the internet.

• 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?

Cloths , languages , traditions , celebrations , festivals

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

• Bringing language skills

• New way of thinking

• Creative solution of difficult problems

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

Melting pot: A pot can which metals and other substance are melted and fused.

Garden salad: Every body keeps their own nationalities.

• 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”.

Indian was the largest minority and then Pakistan , Black Caribbean , Black Africans and Bangladeshis.

• 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 word.

The university of Melbourne’s cultural diversity policy sure that includes many different things based on their rules and some examples are ages , gender , class ect… The cultural diversity of Melbourne’s university is a power to value more opinions and interests to support all stuff and students to courage the appreciation of their own cultures.

Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:

Varied	Exciting	Increasingly	Decreasingly	Respecting	Disrespecting
Strength	Weakness	Improving	Getting worse	Inclusive	Shutting out
Majority	minority	Tolerance	Intolerance	Equality	Inequality

Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:

Diverse	Several	Creative	Inventive	Uniqueness	Individually
Dignity	Respect	Integrated	Combined	Asset	Benefits
Global	International	Benefit	Advantage	Harmony	Agreement

People Watching - Reflective task 1

People Watching 

 

Last weekend I went to Marina Mall “Biella” for dinner with my friends.

·         I saw people with different ages and nationalities all around the restaurant having dinner and enjoying their meals at the restaurant

·         I saw people with different ages and nationalities; which can be guessed from their skin color, language and their dress-code

·         Some people were having family gathering, where you can see the parents and their children around the table having dinner and sharing family stories and talks, while others were having business dinner, where they showed up wearing suites and having laptops and some papers on the table. Else were so casual, where you can easily guess they are friends gathering just like us

·         Most people around the restaurant were interacting in a causal way with each other, and formal with the restaurant’s staff, some people were having difficulties with the waitresses because of the language difference between them. And some were enjoying staring at other people with different cultures and nationalities.

·         As mentioned above, people behaviors were different depends on their cultural and the reason why they visited the restaurant, the businessmen were so professional and having official talks, while the family and friends looked so comfy and having casual talks.  

Week 1 - Lesson 2 (Demographics)

LSS 3205                                                                                                                                                              

Introduction to Diversity

With a partner, research on the internet to find the following information include your sources.

UAE Demographics:

Ethnic Groups	Percentage	Year	Source
Emirati	19%	1982	Index mundi
Other Arab and Iranian	23%	1982	Index mundi
South Asian	50%	1982	Index mundi
Other expatriates	8%	1982	Index mundi

Religions	Percentage	Year	Source
Islam	57%	Didn’t mention	Look lex by tore kjeilen
Hinduism	15%	Didn’t mention	Look lex by tore kjeilen
Christianity	9%	Didn’t mention	Look lex by tore kjeilen
Buddhism	5%	Didn’t mention	Look lex by tore kjeilen
Bahai	1.6%	Didn’t mention	Look lex by tore kjeilen

1.      Write a definition of cultural diversity in your own words.

Culture diversity is when people from different countries , they have different benifits and ethnic , and they speck different languages.

2.      Give examples of cultural diversity in Abu Dhabi (Places of worship, organizations, etc.)




1- Cultural Foundation
2- Schools
3- Masjids
4- Church's

week 1 lesson 1 (circle, definition, table)

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

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

i am  Emirati, because my original family roots are all Emiratis, and I was born in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, which entitles me all the right to have the Emirati nationality by default. Also my passport and national ID proves my nationality as Emirati. My dress-code “the dishdasha and ghitra” is usually dressed by Emaraties, and finally my Arabic language accents is Emirati.

Define Cultural Diversity

Main Category	Sub-Category	Examples
!. Religion	Hindu,Muslim,Christian	My teacher is Christian
2. Language	English, Arabic, ordo, Spanish	I speak English and Arabic
3.Age	12,15,17,20	I’m 17 years old
4.food	Pizza, burger, pasta	Pizza is my favorite
5.Gender	Male , Female	I'm Male
6. Cloth	Kandoora, shirt, jeanz	I wear kandoora
7. Music	guitar, drum , piano	I like guitars
8.SkinColor	White, brown	I am brown
9.Eye color	Brown, blue, black	My eyes is black color
10. Nationality	Emirati , British , American	My teacher is british