Blog Exercise #1 - Ten Aspects of Cultural Diversity

Name ALI MOHAMMED…………………….

ID …H00232940………………….    

1.   Look at these ten aspects which make up your cultural identity. Then, fill in the last two columns – one for somebody who works for your family and one for an expatriate friend. There are other aspects of cultural diversity but these are the main ones.

Aspect	‘ism’	Frankie	Mohamed	Your Family Employee	Your Expatriate Friend
Race/Ethnicity	Racism (Racist)	White British	Emirati	India	Jordan
Language		English	Arabic	Urdu	Arabic
Religion	Religious bigotry (a religious bigot)	Christian (Protestant)	Muslim (Sunni)	Muslim	Muslim
Values and beliefs		Socialist	Carnivore	Credibility	punctuality
Disability	Ableism	Able	Able	Able	Able
Class	Classism	Middle Class	High Class!	Lower class	Middle class
Gender	Sexism (Sexist)	Female	Male	Male	Male
Age	Ageism (Ageist)	60	20	40	20
Educational Background		M.Ed.	Undergraduate	Undergraduate	High school
Sexual Orientation	Hetrosexualist (Homophobic)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

 

2. How many countries are there in the world today?  Around 193 countries

3. How many ethnic groups are there in the world today? …………………………about 7000 ethnic groups

Here is an incomplete list of ethnic groups. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_ethnic_groups

4. How many ethnic groups are there living in the UAE? ……approximately 15 ethnic groups. ………………………

 

 

 

 

5. What is wrong with this chart?  Asians are not 60 per cent ,they are around 75 per cent ……………………………………………………………………………………………….

 

6. What percentage of the UAE population is Emirati in 2014?  About 17 per cent………………..

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/influx-of-foreigners-spikes-uae-population-to-8-3m-1.787518

 

7. Why is the percentage so small? …because there are a lot of nationalities.……….

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? ……no, Idon’t think will happen.…………………………………………………………………………………………..

10. Why do you think this?  …because  there are many of workers and the country needs them

11. Do you have any different ethnic groups in your ancestry or your family today?  ....NO

12. What are the benefits of having a mixed cultural heritage?

……learn anew  different culture and  having new traditions .……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………