Thursday, 15 May 2014

The ten aspects of cultural diversity and cultural diversity in the UAE

(discriminating against groups of people) Frankie Mohamed Your Family Employee Your
Expatriate
Friend
Race/
Ethnicity Racism
(Racist) White British Emirati Pakistani Qatar
Language English Arabic Peshawar Arabic
Religion Religious bigotry
(a religious bigot) Christian
(Protestant) Muslim
(Sunni) Muslim
(Sunni) Muslim
(Sunni)
Values and beliefs Socialist Carnivore Socialist Carnivore
Disability Ableism Able Able Able Able
Class Classism Middle Class High Class! Middle class High class
Gender Sexism
(Sexist) Female Male Male Male
Age Ageism
(Ageist) 60 20 ٣٢ ٢٠
Educational Background M.Ed. Undergraduate No education Collage
Sexual Orientation Hetrosexualist
(Homophobic) N/A N/A N/A N/A




2. How many countries are there in the world today?  ……196..
3. How many ethnic groups are there in the world today? …398 I'm not sure……
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? …………………12……………….
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)  Rashed - UAE - my friend
e)
f)
5. What is wrong with this chart?  …………the emirati citizens are very low………………………….


6. What percentage of the UAE population is Emirati in 2014?  ………9.30 million………..
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? …19% UAE Emirati citizens……….
8. The UAE's population strategy plans to make Emiratis the majority in the country or up to …….. per cent, by …….., 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 so many people are getting married…………………………………………………………………
11. Do you have any different ethnic groups in your ancestry or your family today?  ..................................................no.................................................................................
12. What are the benefits of having different cultures heritages ?
To have communication with people and try to learn languages.
Post this on your blog by the end of the class.

The British

A student asked me what made me British and I gave a potted history of the last 2,000 years.
Here is a famous British poet's answer to what makes British people.
His name is Benjamin Zephaniah,

A recipe for 60,000,000 British people - 2,000 years of immigration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq13dvtZjP4











Why is Cultural Diversity a positive thing?

Because it teaches you some things that you may not know.

No comments:

Post a Comment