Portfolio exercise #4

Everest climbing team: Cultural Diversity

Watch the film and take notes to answer the following questions:

1. List the team members by name, with their duties and country

Name Responsibility Country Skills

-   Jamling                                                                 Indian            Climber

- ED Vioster                                                                USA              Climber

- Paula                                                                        USA              Scientist 

- Araceliseggra                                                         Spain             Rock Climber

- Rodger                                                                   England          Scientist  

- Tsusuki                                                                   Japan             Photographer 

- Chyngue                                                               Indian              Chief 

  

2.What were the qualities or skills of each member that benefitted the team?

most of them were climbers and few had different skills

   

3.How was the Team helped by ‘cultural diversity’ to attain their goal (reach the summit of Everest)?  

  They used his culture to do his job and they combined each culture to make it to the top and survive helped each-other and did a great job that's how they combined there culture.

Portfolio 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.	FALSE
2.       A “salad bowl” represents varied and   separate cultures.	TRUE
3.       One aspect of Multiculturalism is respecting different cultures.	TRUE
4.       Cultural Diversity can be represented by a “melting pot”	FALSE
5.       Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	FALSE

Define in your own words:

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

2.       “Salad Bowl” : People live in new country and keeping their culture.

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

4.       “Acculturation” : Learning the new culture in new country.

5.       “Enculturation” : The process by which an individual learns the traditional .

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	change	respect	regard	dominate	predominate
multiple	complicated	central	nuclear	interacting	working togather
specific	limited	represents	equal	adopt	choose

Give the opposite:

varied	homogeneous	respect	disrespect	gradually	rapidly
multiple	few	common	individual	dominant group	minority group
specific	general	contrasted with	camped 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

The study of human behavior in view of cultural diversity.

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

Feeding, talking, toilet training.

1.       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.”

We teach the child how to respect old people.

We teach our children hospitality.

We teach them the importance of pride and honor.

Portfolio exercise #2

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  :  Different in kind 

2. Plurality  :   The excess of votes received by leading candidate in an election 

3. Migration :  The movement of people from one place to another 

4. Fundamental : Forming or serving as essential part of a system 

5. Collective strength

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?

music and the dress can be very interesting 

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

1 - Thinking in different ways       2- increasing the skills          3- learn the languages 

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

Melting pot : An area where many ideas are mixed  ,    Garden salad : cultures that blended into unique cultures 

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”.

1- Pakistan     2- Indian     3- Black African 

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. 

Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:

Varied	homogeneous	Increasingly	decreasingly	Respecting	rudeness
Strength	weakness	Improving	declining	Inclusive	narrow
Majority	minority	Tolerance	intolerance	Equality	inequality

Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:

Diverse	Varied	Creative	artistic	Uniqueness	distinction
Dignity	respect	Integrated	inserted	Asset	savings
Global	universal	Benefit	interest

Portfolio exercise #1

Introduction to Diversity

Think!

• Who lives in the UAE? Many nationalities 

• How many Emiratis are there? about 950,000 

• What other nationalities and culturally diverse groups are there?  202 different nationalities 

• Do you know any population statistics? (For the UAE, for the separate Emirates?)

AD : 2.121 Million "2011" DXB: 2.3 Million "2011" SHJ: 946,000 "2008" RAK : 416,600 "2012" FJ: 176,825 "2010" 

AJ :262,186 "2011"  UMQ: 49.159 "2005" 

Task 1

With a partner, research on the internet to find information about UAE demographics.

Nationality	Percentage/Number	Year	Source
Emirates	947,997	2010	Wikipedia
Bangladeshis	600,000	2010	Arab3.com
Egyptians	300,000	2012	Gulfnews.com
Srilanka	238,000	2011	obenjuerge.com
Indian	42%	2009	Gulfnews.com
Malaysian	6000	2010	thestar.com

Religions	Percentage	Year	Source
Muslim (Sona)	80%	2013	indexmundi.com
Muslim (Shiaa)	16%	2013	indexmundi.com
Christian  Hindus	4%	2013	indexmundi.com

Do the results surprise you?  No 

Comments? Conclusions?

As expected , Asian have most of the UAE population .

Task 2

Give examples of cultural diversity in Abu Dhabi (Places of worship, organizations, etc.)    Global village