Ten
Aspects of Cultural Diversity
These are the ten aspects of cultural diversity which we are going to concentrate on
in this course.
1) Download
Popplet Lite (free app) from the App
Store, and then make a Popplet like
the diagram below. Put yourself in the centre. Around yourself put the names of
six people you know who are not
Emirati. Fill in the boxes. What makes them different from you? !
2) Define
yourself as an Emirati. Write a short paragraph.
Example – I was born in Abu Dhabi and
my nationality is Emirati.
My name is Mohammed Al Mannaei i was born in Ras Al
Khaimah and my nationality is Emiraty, I,m 33 years old , I work in Abu Dhabi
Police since 2009, I,m staying in reem island which has many people from many nationalities,
I like to meet new people from all over the world and share with them
activities like playing football, tennis and swimming, am proud that am Emarati
because emarati people known as a frindly people.
3) Now,
let’s complete the table below, based on our class discussion:
|
Main Category
|
Sub-Category
|
Example
|
|
1. Religion
|
Hindu,
Muslim, Christian
|
My teacher
is a Christian.
|
|
2. Ethnicity
|
asian,african
|
Alen ethnicity is asian
|
|
3. Language
|
arabic, english
|
Peter language is english
|
|
4. Value and belief systems
|
Worship of the sun
,cremation
|
Komar belief in cremation
|
|
5. Disability
|
deaf, mute
|
Khaled disability is
mute
|
|
6. Class
|
Middle class, working
class
|
Shela class is working class
|
|
7. Gender
|
male , female
|
Amin gender is male
|
|
8. Age
|
19, 18, 20
|
My brother age is 18
|
|
9. Education background
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high school, college
|
Ali education background is college
|
|
10. Race
|
asian , black
|
Obama race is black
|
*The world population can be divided into 4
major races, namely white/Caucasian, Mongoloid/Asian, Negroid/Black and
Australoid. This is based on a racial classification made by Carleton S. Coon
in 1962. There is no universally
accepted classification for “race”, however, and its use has been under fire
over the last few decades. The United Nations, in a 1950 statement, opted to “drop
the term ‘race’ altogether and speak of “ethnic groups”. In this case, there
are more than 5,000 ethnic groups in the world, according to a 1998 study
published in the Scientific American.
http://blog.world-mysteries.com/science/how-many-major-races-are-there-in-the-world/
