Exercise # 11

Exercise # 11

Exercise # 10

Exercise # 10

Some famous who resisted against racism is Jackie Robinson, he is acts to resist was with baseball and his determination was very good. Even when all people were against him he stood above with his pride, his dream was unlimited, he fought racism with the thing he liked and it was sport.

He will never be forgotten.

Conclusion:

Why was he successful ?

Jackie Robinson was successful because his faith was strong and his wisdom was bright.

people today should learn from his life because it will them hope in life.

Exercise # 9

 Culture shock

 

Outsourced movie it’s an interesting movie. It’s about one man working in a call center company, and his name is Todd. His manager told him we don’t need you in our company part in Seattle so we must send you to our part in India. He was sad when he heard this decision from his manager. After that he travel to India and when he arrived there he found the weather very hot also it’s crowded and everybody shouting so he felt unhappy. One day he wears his clothes and left out of his home, aunt ji has put a piece of paper in his room and she write on it don’t go out today, but Todd didn’t see it so he go out. When he was out they throw paint in his clothes and he saw Purro there trying to protect him.  He refuses to accept the Indian cultures, so he suffers from the culture shocks and some problems in the work. Few days later, he starts to make friends with Indians. After that, Todd realizes the fact that Aisha is such a smart girl, and she has done many great things at work. Suddenly, the story turns to a series of dramatically changes and we finally see their love.

Exercise # 8

Cultural Dimensions in Outsourced

As you watch the film, answer the questions and write down any examples of different cultural dimensions. This will help you with your reflection.

 

Cultural Dimension	Character Todd, Puro, Aisha or other	Outsourced Scene or Circumstance
Low-context culture	Todd and his boss	Office
High-context culture	Aisha	Office in India
Individualism	Indian Taxi guy	Airport
Collectivism	Indian Taxi were fighting	Airport
Low power distance	Todd and his boss	Office
High power distance	Puro with Todd	Office
Uncertainty tolerance	Todd and his boss	Office
Uncertainty avoidance	Aisha with Todd	India
Task orientation	Puro	Administration
Social orientation	Aisha	India

 

Reflection

Create a reflection about the movie Outsourced using the PowerPoint I give you. Show that you really understand the above cultural concepts.

1. As soon as Todd arrives, he experiences the discomfort of being disoriented in a
strange new place. What happens at the airport?  He struggled trying to walk through the huge crowed at the airport, which was an abnormal scene for him. Then he got annoyed by all the taxi drivers around him, who were fighting over him

2. When a friendly traveler helps him get on the train, what does he tell him to do? He advised him to jump into the train


3. When he gets on the train, he cannot find an empty seat. How is this problem
solved for him? How might this be a cultural solution? The young kid offered him his seat and then sat in his lap, because of the high population in india people are used to such a solution such as sharing seats, standing and squeezing in the train cabins.

4. As any exchange student, he has a lot of experiences trying new food. His first
encounter is with an iced drink. What happens? He got stomach ache, and got sick because of the polluted water used in the iced drink.

5. First encounters with a culture can be shocking – Todd sees crowded streets with
cows, noise, and a man urinating in the street. But how does his host describe the
city? “Bombay is terrible, but here it’s very clean”

6. Even though the host Puro speaks English, Todd uses American slang a lot
without thinking. So as not to insult Puro, what does he say the meaning of
Schmuck is?  That means like a nice guy

7. Todd wants to check in to a hotel. But Puro insists he comes to a boarding house.
What is the reason he gives Todd? That he will feel lonely if he stays by himself in the hotel.

8. As soon as they meet, Aunti Ji starts asking very intimate questions that
Americans who have just met would never ask. What kind of things does she ask?
What does your father do, are you married, what’s your salary, do you have a girlfriend? Why did you break up?

9. During his first conversation with Aunti Ji he makes two big mistakes. What are
they? He ate with his left hand which considered not clean in india and he placed the same hand he ate with back in the food

10. The Golden Rule says do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That
means his Indian hosts and friends are trying to make him comfortable the way
they would be comfortable. How does this apply when the servant is preparing
tea for Todd? She poured the tea for him and even put sugar just the way they do.



Exercise # 7

     Blog Exercise # 7

Our presentaion was about the Key Differences Between Masculine and Feminine Societies.

And we covered it and gave examples and described few topics.

I covered these following points:

• Masculine 

1. Challenge, earnings, recognition, and advanecement are important.
2. Men should be assertive, ambitions and though.
3. Women are supposed to be tender and take care of relationships.
4. Double standards; Men are subjects, women are objects.  
5. performence society ideal -- Support for the strong.

Exersice # 6

                                                              The Culture Iceberg


4- Explain the "iceberg" theory of culture. Why is it important for cross-cultural understanding?

In a comparison between iceberg and culture there can be found a lot of similarities between them referring to the idea of what is visible and what is invisible. It can be seen that just a small portion is invisible under the water, and that exactly describes people's thought about culture. People often think of a culture from the observable. External manifestation such as food, music and arts but in reality culture is more deeply than that, it's about how core values and attitudes are interpreted in daily life situation. In addition, it's a necessary to know more about cultural core values because it's  help you to be more understandable and not to judge a culture by it's visible side.


* Give five example of surface culture:-

1- Food.
2- Dances.
3- Arts.
4- Music.
5- Greeting rituals.


* Give ten examples of underlying ( below the surface ) culture :-

1- Attitudes.
2- core values.
3- Way they act.
4- Words they use.
5- laws they enact.
6- Communicating ways.
7- The media.
8- Economies.
9- Educational systems.
10- History.
11- Religion
12- Family

 

Exercise # 5 : Slaves

                                                                         Exercise # 5

Exercise # 4

Adverse Reactions to Diversity – Portfolio exercise #4


With a partner, please answer the following. You may use internet resources to help you.

1. Define:
a. Stereotyping: is having a bad idea and thing about people.
b. Prejudice: un reason able opinion formed without enough knowledge.
c. Bias: the action of supporting a particular person in an unfair way.
d. Discrimination: to treat people differently especially in a worse way from the way in which treating other people.


2. Give an example of each.

1.   stereotyping: all Emirates are rich , all Emirates are lazy, like to eat and fats

2.   prejudice: she is strictly prejudice but yet honest.

3.   bias: the lawyer had a clear evidence of a strong bias against the killer.

4.   discrimination: rich people discriminate poor people and thin people discriminate a fat people.


Watch  Class Divided
 Understanding
With partners, answer the following:

1. Where, when and with whom did this experiment take place?
In 1950 and the experience took place in school grade 3 witch is about greed 7 or 8 age.  

2. Describe the experiment.
The instructor said in the first day that the blue eye students are clever and much better than brown eye students. the day after ,she said that students with brown eyes are supervisor and much better than blue eyes students. The goal of this experience is to teach them about discrimination practically.

3. What were the results?
the students are pessimistic because they can't gather with each other.

4. How successful do you believe it was?
it was an effective experiment because the children what does discrimination means.


Going Deeper 
In groups of four, discuss the following:
 a time she or he experienced prejudice or discrimination

one day I entered  a elevator with a lady, and there was a maid behind me but she pushed her out.
 a time she or he discriminated against somebody else
there was a man treating the people working with him bad because they were from India.  

 a time she or he witnessed discrimination and did nothing about it
there was a boy shouting at the cashier in the coup but his mother didn't interfere about him.

 a time she or he witnessed discrimination and did something about it
There was a white student always fighting with his classmate because he was black , and their teacher talked to him and stopped him.

Culture Diversity video

This is my culture diversity video:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J1TYFVkOw4&feature=youtu.be

My cultural Diversity ( Reflection )

My cultural diversity:

This is our video for culture diversity :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J1TYFVkOw4&feature=youtu.be

We went to the heritage village in Dubai to know about old culture in UAE before 40 years and more, also we made some videos with other expats to know about their culture in their country.

first we went to see old houses and how they built it. Old houses were made by palm trees that were tensioned by rope. Also in the past they didn't have air conditioner but to solve this problem they made a small hole in the walls to let the air enters inside the house in summer.

They also had pots to save water inside because they didn't have freezer before.

After that we went to see old boats, they were in two types, one of them was used to transport from a place to another while the second type was used to make a living, for example: they used this boats to go fishing to ate and sold fish, they also used for diving to get pearls and sale it.

Finally we made a conversation with expats and ask them about what they know about our culture and what is the difference between us and them.

There are many difference between our culture and their culture.

for example: they built their houses by stones but we built it by palm trees. Also we are known for our hospitality but they only receive people they know.

In this trip i feel like i was living with my ancestors and i learned about our culture 40 years ago. In addition i learned about other culture in other countries 40 years ago.

Mohsin Al Wahedi

H00014624

CEB

Exercise # 3

Exercise # 3

Quiz 2 – What are Multiculturalism, Assimilation and Acculturation? 

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

1.       A Multicultural society can be described as a society with a single set of values.	F
2.       A “salad bowl” represents varied and separate cultures.	T
3.       One aspect of Multiculturalism is respecting different cultures.	T
4.       Cultural Diversity can be represented by a “melting pot”	F
5.       Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	F

Define in your own words:

1.       “Melting Pot”: immigrant loose the birth identity

2.       “Salad Bowl”: all leaving together in peace and keeping there identity

3.       “Assimilation”: capacity

4.       “Acculturation”: sheering culture

5.       “Enculturation”: a process

Complete the sentence with words from the text:

Acculturation often results in changes to __culture__, __customs__and __social institution__, as well as changes in food, _clothing_ and _language_.

Give a synonym:

varied	different	respect	veneration	dominate	control
multiple	collective	central	basic	interacting	relating
specific	exact	represents	signifies	adopt	accept

Give the opposite:

varied	Single	respect	Disrespect	gradually	Suddenly
multiple	Few	common	Private	dominant group	Minor group
specific	Vague	contrasted with	agreed with	adopt	frosake

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: Is the study of human behavior from the point view of cultural diversity.

2.       What do you understand by “socialization of children” Give an example: Teaching them how to eat, respect other people, how to talk, and how to deal with other people.

3.       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.”

In other societies: (children should be seen and not heard) and (spare the rod and spoil the children) and that means if you don’t punish him, he will be spoilt or badly behaved. In our society:  they let them depend in themselves and give them the chance to give their opinions, and if they were bad sometimes parents use beating but they don’t beat them hard. 

4.       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.”

Yes I agree with it because when the children come to life they are new  and we teach them good or bad behaviors. Also every baby in the world is same but when we teach them then there will be a difference between them, someone become good and someone become bad.

5.       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.

Our culture reflect on our personality and shape it, because, our society is an Islamic society and its conservative society, our ladies must cover their faces, and they cannot deal a lot with strange men. Also they can't hand shaking with them. In addition Islamic society teaches us to be generous and don’t lie to each other. Also it prevents bad habits such as drinking alcohol, and we all try to do good things like our profit Mohamed tell us to do. And that’s reflecting on our behaviors and. 

Exercise # 2

Quiz 1 - What is Cultural Diversity
Portfolio Exercise #2

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




Vocabulary practice. Define in your own words:

1. Heterogeneous: Different

2. Plurality: More than one

3. Migration: To. Move

4. Fundamental: Basic - Foundation

5. Collective strength: Group of power

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?

Clothes, languages, music, sports


2. Name three ways in which people of different cultures can help a country to function in the new global economy.
a- Increase profit.
b- reduce the prices of devices and clothes
c- different design

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

a- Melting pot: is a metaphor for a heterogeneous society.
b- Garden salad: The many different cultures of United States a salad.

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”.
Africans- Indians


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 is one of the most multicultural universities around the world. one of the opportunities that university.



Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:




Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:

Exercise # 1

Blog Exercise #1 - Ten Aspects of Cultural Diversity
Name Mohsin Ali
ID H00014624


1.   Look at these ten aspects which make up your cultural identity. Then, fill in the last two columns – one for somebody who works for your family and one for an expatriate friend. There are other aspects of cultural diversity but these are the main ones.


2. How many countries are there in the world today?  …210…..
3. How many ethnic groups are there in the world today? …+5000…
Here is an incomplete list of ethnic groups. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_ethnic_groups
4. How many ethnic groups are there living in the UAE? ..5..




5. What is wrong with this chart? ..it's old chart and not right informations..


6. What percentage of the UAE population is Emirati in 2014?   11.4 %
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/influx-of-foreigners-spikes-uae-population-to-8-3m-1.787518

7. Why is the percentage so small? ..because the number of the foreigners is increasing..
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? ………Yes……..
10. Why do you think this? ……Because the goverment is working hard to achieve ……
11. Do you have any different ethnic groups in your ancestry or your family today? ..No..
12. What are the benefits of having a mixed cultural heritage?
…Learn a good culture from people who come from outside…
Post this on your blog by the end of the class.