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 Abdulla I’m from the UAE. I
was born in Abu Dhabi. I’m 20 years old
I love my country sow much
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
|
American, Indian, Korean
|
My friend is American
|
3. Language
|
English, urdo , Russian
|
My Drivers speaks urdo
|
4. Value and belief systems
|
Demarcates, society, dictatorial
|
america is democratic
|
5. Disability
|
Hearing and speaking
|
my sister cannot walk
|
6. Class
|
teacher, rich and poor
|
Many Emiratis lives in middle class
|
7. Gender
|
Women, men
|
Most of my friends are males
|
8. Age
|
Teenager’s, adults ,
|
im an adult
|
9. Education background
|
high school , phd and masters
|
current student in the college
|
10. Race
|
Asian , black , white
|
im Caucasian
|
*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/
