Portfolio Exercise #7

Ethnocentrism Assignment

·         Read about Ethnocentrism : Ethnocentrism is that individuals judge other culture or other groups and they think they are better than them

·         List three examples of ethnocentrism from history
1 - Nazi Germany
2 - European Imperialism
3 - The mandate of Heaven

·         What country is known for being ethnocentric today?
United States

·         What is the famous quote from Shylock which reminds all of us of our humanity? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not seek revenge?"

·         Look at the two maps of ethnocentric Americans and Ethnocentric Indians.
Ethnocentric Americans :

Ethnocentric Indians

·         Now make a map showing how Emiratis see the world.

Portfolio Exercise #6

Adverse Reactions to Diversity – Portfolio exercise #6

Course:       Cultural Diversity                                 Code:  LSSS N205

Name:                             ID#                                        Name:                                  ID#

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

1.      Define:

a.       Stereotyping : A fixed idea about a type of person based on image  which is often not true.

b.      Prejudice : judging people badly before knowing them

c.       Bias : is to show a favour to one side only

d.      Discrimination : Treated one group Differently from the other one

2.      Give an example of each.

1 – Many people hate "KFC" While they tried one product

2 – A lot of People thinks Arabs are terrorist, While they haven`t met them.

3 – Emirates people prefer to work on government jobs

4 – Before many years in USA black people Were treated badly as Slaves and different from white people

Watch  Class Divided

ü Understanding

With partners, answer the following:

1.      Where, when and with whom did this experiment take place?
In a School , USA , 1950s

2.      Describe the experiment.
Separate the students by the colour of their eye

3.      What were the results?
They start to hate each other, there was fights between blue coloured eye and brown eyes. And they were saying bad words to each other.

4.      How successful do you believe it was?
they figured out that they should not judge people by their colour and changes

Their behavior. It was very successful experiment

Going Deeper

In groups of four, discuss the following:

Ø  a time she or he experienced prejudice or discrimination

Ø  a time she or he discriminated against somebody else

Ø  a time she or he witnessed discrimination and did nothing about it

Ø  a time she or he witnessed discrimination and did something about it
 

Reflection #1

Reflection :

                                                        Emirati Culture Video

                                             

While making this video about Emirati Culture I have got more information about our history and culture that before making this video I didn't know about it or even comes to my mind. In the begging I though that making this movie is going to be hard. Since we start to work in teams as 5 Students, we started to share our ideas and help each other it does make the work easier and better for us. I have learned how to talk in front of the camera with tourist to get to know them and to know their opinion on us and break that shy I had. The other thing i have learned is how amazing grandparents used to live and how simply there live were For example how they used to travel. And by making this video i have about seen and learned about new artifacts that we could not found it in our places. The third which is when u work as Group or when u are in team u should respect the other people opinions and try to develop that. As an emirati citizen we should keep our traditional alive and show all tourist in the country what is true idenity of the United Arab Emirates.

URL : 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPHXW-XV240