Drawing of ethnocentric

Drawing of ethnocentric situation

 

 

Ethnocentric Cartoon Task

Ethnocentric Cartoon Task

 

 

Are Emiratis Ethnocentric?

Are Emiratis Ethnocentric?

 

 

Quotations Quiz

Quotations Quiz

 

Goal 3 Culture & Communication

 

Outcome 4

 

Name: Fareis Almenhali                ID# H00014404                 Name: Husain Almarzooqi ID# H00236976

 

 

 

With a partner, research the internet to find the missing categories. Write the meaning of the quote in your own words from your own ideas:

 

Cultural Views

 

Speaker	Quote	Meaning
Dwight D. Eisenhower	A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.	The society that assume that their concession above their essentials loses both of them because essentials privileges can't be without standards of work.
Martin Luther King	All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.	All men are linked together.
Sheik Zayed	"A nation without a past is a nation without a present or a future. Thanks to God, our nation has a flourishing civilization, deep-rooted in this land for many centuries. These roots will always flourish and bloom in the glorious present of our nation and in its anticipated future.”	Any country that doesn’t value its past, can’t appreciate its present or future. This country, thanks to God, has a rich past, does well for now and its expected future.
Amin Maalouf	Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them with difficult choices.	We have complex with different beliefs, and we have to choice.
Mohandas Gandhi	A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and souls of its people.	The culture of a country depends on how people love and treat people in the country.
Jerome du Bois	Traditions deserve to be respected only insofar as they are respectable – that is, exactly insofar as they themselves respect the fundamental rights of men and women.	It is good to respect traditions but not every traditions because some societies good bad traditions.
ML King Jr.	I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.	God doesn’t care about skin color. God cares about freedom for everyone.
Albert Schweitzer	My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.	As you respect other people they will do the same to you.
Frank Borman	When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?	Looking at the earth from space, one wonders why we can’t get along decently.
Pablo Casals	The love of one’s country is a splendid thing, but why should it stop at the border?	As we love our country why don’t we love others.
DD. Eisenhower		If people of the world can’t get along, nothing will work.
Sheik Zayed	Many countries go to war and then towards reconciliation. The history of mankind is full of stories of wars between people and states that have come together after fighting for long. Why can't Arabs be like them?	Why can’t Arabs think of reconciliatory after wars like other nations?
Martin Luther King	I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.	The future will be without racism.
Amin Maalouf	For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.	When people treat and look at others in a better way they will interact better instead of imprisons themselves with the fear of social

 

Multiculturalism, Assimilation & Acculturation

Quiz 2: What are: Multiculturalism, Assimilation & Acculturation

 

 

 

 

Cultural Diversity in the UAE

Cultural Diversity in the UAE

 

 

 

Cultural Diversity LO3

Cultural Diversity

What is Cultural Diversity?

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: multicultural society

2.Plurality: diversity, different.

3.Migration: leave your own country

4.Fundamental: essential 

5.Collective strength: strong communities

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?

Languages specially in a country that has a multicultural communities, we would find people who are bilingual or those can speak more than two forign languages.

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

      People from diverse cultures bring language new ways of thinking creative solutions to difficult problems and negotiating skills as well as the country will be attracted to tourists because of the varity of food of different culture and respecting it.

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

Melting point when we have a homogeneous socity, they come from various background or ancestors and then they mixe to form one community but that was used to describe the assimilation of immigrants to USA in 1780s.

after 1970 there was a challenge by proporents of multiculturalism who assert the cultural differences with in socity are valuable and should be preserved, proposing the alternative metaphor of salad bowl different culture mix, but remain distinct.

      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”.

     They are Indians,Pakistani,whitIrish,blackAfrican,blackCaribbean,Bangladeshi and chinesse.

     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.

The University of Melbourne has a policy that support having students and the staff from different race, religion, culture, gender and even educational background and provide the right environment to encourage them to express their views and interest also to learn and explore more about diversity of culture.

Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:

Varied	invariable	Increasingly	decreasingly	Respecting	disrespecting
Strength	weakeness	Improving	disimproving	Inclusive	exclusive
Majority	miniroty	Tolerance	intolerance	Equality	inequality

Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:

Diverse	Various kind	Creative	inventive	Uniqueness	peerless
Dignity	A sense of your own important and value	Integrated	Combine two or more	Asset	A person or thing that is valuable or useful to sb
Global	Covering or affecting the whole world	Benefit	An advantage that someone gives you ; a helpful and useful effect that someone has	Harmony	A state of peaceful existence and agreement