Reflective essay 3

Cultural diversity is the cultural variety and cultural differences that exist in the world, a society, or an institution. There are multiple types of cultural diversity which are stereotype, prejudice, and discrimination. In this essay I am going to compare these types of cultures toward my own experience and culture.

The first type is stereotyping is a belief in an image or distorted truth about a person or group. For an example, in my culture Muslims and Israelis are known to be enemies because of our different beliefs and religions. Moreover, what we call a "Red eye" which is when someone likes something and not saying the word "Mashalla" something atrocious might happen to the person or thing that he like.


Furthermore, prejudice is an opinion, prejudgment or attitude about a group or individual members. For an example, people in my age call friends or cousins that don't move a lot or lazy “Sudanese" because Sudanese people usually are known to be lazy. Second example of prejudice is appropriate for boy and girl teenagers to walk and go out together in public places because of the rumors.

In addition, discrimination is the behavior that treats people unequally because of their group memberships. As an example, Arab’s have less respect for the drivers and maids because of the fact that the work for them. Also Arab’s tend to judge people toward having luxurious stuff or cheap stuff, and most importantly last names.

In conclusion, in my opinion, I think learning these cultures will help me in how to treat people in a respectful way and to admiration nationalities because we are all humans and there is no difference between us, we have to be more open minded in our social life.

Thoughts and comments of the video

 The video is about an English teacher thinks that he has the ability to teach English language to a multicultural class , and my comment on the video that in the class there was racism between some of them for example the Chines and the Japanese men was because of the political issues, and sexism was the French woman and the Greek and Spanish men when they wanted to sit next to her.

persentation slides

Answers of the song lyrics

Lyrics from which popular song?

“But if you only have love for your own race

Then you only leave space to discriminate

And to discriminate only generates hate

And when you hate, then you’re bound to get irate, yeah..”

·         If you like music, go to www.lyrics.com , listen to the rest of the song and study the rest of the lyrics.

·         Can you recommend another song which deals with a similar subject? Rolling in the deep

·         Do you think music can help to unite people? Yes , Because some songs can control people's feelings and make some changes in their lifes.

Course Goal 1 Revision

LSS 2053 Course Goal 1 Revision

Answer the following revision questions in paragraphs of about 50 words each. In your answers you should use examples from your own experience where possible.

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.

Categories	Examples	Challenges or Benefits	Why?
1-      Religion	All students are Muslims but teachers are from many religions	Benefits	To make a respect
2-      Language	We must speak English at ADMC	Benefit , Challenge	Learning other language Hard to communicate
3-      Food	Food court (Italian ,Indian food)	Benefit	Variety
4-      Age & Education background of students	Some have finished 2 or more semesters but others have come from schools	Challenge , Benefit	Some students took time to reach this level other didn’t. Learning New things quickly and save time.
5-      Nationalities	Different nationalities of teachers	Benefit	Different style in teaching
6-      Cloths	Jeans , Dishdasha	Benefit	Students  can wear any kind of cloths not uniform only.
7-      Age	Students are in different ages	Benefit	Students and learn more from different ages
8-      Gender	Female	Benefit	Males are behaved The situation is like workplace
9-      Skills	Students have different skills than each other	Benefit	Students can help  each other

2.       Define and give an example of Acculturation.

Acculturation: The process of learning the culture of an host country. 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.

Child raising in different cultures can have a effect on personality because it can effect the way children grow up and communicate with others. A very strict upbringing could lead to a shy withdraw personality, whereas an open upbringing could lead to a friendly , confident  personality. These are ideas not facts.

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 work for economic reasons usually.

Melting pot: All the immigration 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?

By exchanging experience from different cultures & Implement the best parches.

-          Meet people from different experience.

-          Meet people with different mentalities.

Based on this we could generate better ideas and plans for the future.

 

week 4 Quiz (What are Multiculturalism , Assimilation & Acculturation)

Quiz – What are Multiculturalism, Assimilation and Acculturation?

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

A Multicultural society can be described as a society with a single set of values.	False, it contains multiple cultures
A “salad bowl” represents varied and separate cultures.	True
One aspect of Multiculturalism is respecting different cultures.	True
Cultural Diversity can be represented by a “melting pot”	False, because in melting pot they are all in one nationalities and one culture
Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	False, Learning about different cultures and to be a part of you

Define in your own words:

· “Melting Pot”: Forgetting your old culture and totally adapting to the new one.

· “Salad Bowl”: People live in new country and keep their tradition

· “Assimilation”: Forgetting your old culture and totally adapting to the new one.

· “Acculturation”: process of learning a culture of a host country

· “Enculturation”: Process of learning a culture of birth country

Complete the sentence with words from the text:

Acculturation often results in changes to culture, custom and social institution, as well as changes in food, clothing and language.

Give a synonym:

varied	Different	respect	Honor	dominate	Control
multiple	Many	central	Main	interacting	Reactive
specific	Exact	represents	Shows	adopt	Take on

Give the opposite:

varied	Same	respect	Disrespect	gradually	Suddenly
multiple	Single	common	Uncommon	dominant group	Minority group
specific	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: Study of human behavior from the point view of cultural Diversity.

2.       Define “movement” in this context: area of study.

3.       What do you understand by “socialization of children” Give an example:

all humans are the same when born, but childrearing in different societies causes deviations in behavior and personalities from each other, for example feeding, talking, and toilet training.

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”.

-          “Spare the rod and spoil the child”.

-          If you don’t punish him, he will be spoilt or badly behaved.

And that is the same in UAE, also depending on how the parents treat their children.

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.”  

-  I agree to all of this sentence, because our profit Mohamed said that human born with “ Fitra “ and their mother and father make him or her as they are.

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, i can see there is a link between the culture and my personality because in our culture there is a similarity in treatments when the parents treat their childern. In other societies some personalities cannot be the same because it depends on the culture of their country and how they treated for example how the mothers feed their childern and when the father get mad when they've done somthing wrong by talking to them or beatin in a bad way.