Friday, February 28, 2014

Comparison Of Ten Aspects of Cultural Diversity

Aspect
‘ism’
(discriminating against groups of people)
Frankie
Mohamed
Your Family Employee
Your
Expatriate
Friend
Race/
Ethnicity
Racism
(Racist)
White British
Emirati
Egyption
France
Language

English
Arabic
Arabic
France
Religion
Religious bigotry
(a religious bigot)
Christian
(Protestant)
Muslim
(Sunni)
Muslim

Christian
Values and beliefs

Socialist
Carnivore
Carnivore
vegetarian
Disability
Ableism
Able
Able
Able
Able
Class
Classism
Middle Class
High Class!
Low class
High class
Gender
Sexism
(Sexist)
Female
Male
Male
Male
Age
Ageism
(Ageist)
60
20
36
29
Educational Background

M.Ed.
Undergraduate
High school
M.Ed.
Sexual Orientation
Hetrosexualist
(Homophobic)
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

The ten aspects of cultural diversity





2. How many countries are there in the world today?  About 200
3. How many ethnic groups are there in the world today?  More than 6000
Here is an incomplete list of ethnic groups. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_ethnic_groups
Here is a map of the cultural zones.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/World_Culture_Zones_in_jpg.jpg
4. How many different ethnic groups are there living in the UAE? More than 20
5. How many different ethnic groups do you associate with every day?
a) Frankie - Australian - my teacher
b) Laxmi - Sri Lankan -my maid
c) Nepali taxi drivers
d) komar- Indian- my driver
e) Starbucks workers
f) Pakistani - Landry boy
5. What is wrong with this chart? the percentage of local local people is double……………………….
6. What percentage of the UAE population is Emirati in 2014?  Around 12%
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/influx-of-foreigners-spikes-uae-population-to-8-3m-1.787518
Here is more information on the demographics of the UAE
http://looklex.com/e.o/uae.religions.htm
http://looklex.com/e.o/uae.peoples.htm
7. Why is the percentage so small? Because the number of outcome people are coming to our country is higher than number of locals , also number of Engagement is very low
. 8. The UAE's population strategy plans to make Emiratis the majority in the country or up to 40 Per cent by 2021, members of the Federal National Council (FNC) told Gulf News.
9. Do you think this will happen? ………No I don't ………………………………………………………..
10. Why do you think this? ……because locals are few instate of hole number of people in UAE ……………
11. Do you have any different ethnic groups in your ancestry or your family today?  ..................................Yes...........................................................................
12. What are the benefits of having a mixed cultural heritage?
………to know how other people with different culture are live and how they communicate each other ………………………………………………