Wednesday, October 31, 2012

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.

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