Reflection #3

Discrimination and Prejudice

From the video in YouTube about brown eyes and blue eyes, I remember a situation where I saw one of my friends at work. He looked like Indian guy with the face and the attitude so I said to myself is there an Indian guy with at work. I kept my self away from him and I didn’t want to talk to him. I ended up working with him here in the army so after some time I become friend with him. I started to know him more and to respect him more. I found that his mother is Indian and he looks like his mother. He talks Indian with his family especially his mother.

 Another one is when I was in the UK studying, it happens that one of my friends was the team leader of my group and he didn’t take the responsibility of the guys so the bosses decided to change him and put another one instead of him. They decided to put me in his place, so one of the guys said “why to put Ahmed the team leader he thinks so high of himself and he will put us all in problems”. The bosses didn’t listen to what he said and they did put me the leader of the group. After some time we started to know each other. He started to change after some time towards me, he talks to me in a different way and we become good friends and he also apologized to me to what he said to me at the day of choosing the team leaders. 

Diversity and Personal Conduct – vocabulary : : Portfolio #5

Find the definition OR synonym  of each of the words:       

    

1.   Civility / civilized : Cultured

2.   Acknowledge : Allow

3.   Inclusive / inclusion : Addition

4.   Respect : Esteem 

5.   Apology : an admission of error or discourtesy accompanied by an expression of regret

6.   Consideration : Thought

7.   Behavior : Actions

8.   Responsibility : Duty

9.   Attention (pay) : Consideration

10. Tolerance : Acceptance

11. Attitude (positive) : Outlook

12. Conduct : Manner

13. Politeness : Respect

14. Constructive (comment) : useful

15. Kindness :  Compassion

portfolio assignment #4-cultural diversity

 Quiz- what are multicalturasim,assimilation and acculturation ?

True or False? If FALSE, write the TRUE answer.

1.       A Multicultural society can be described as a society with a single set of values.	false is a multiple culture
2.       A “salad bowl” represents varied and separate cultures.	true
3.       One aspect of Multiculturalism is respecting different cultures.	true
4.       Cultural Diversity can be represented by a “melting pot”	true
5.       Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	false Learning another culture and adding them is ‘Acculturation’.

Define in your own words:

1.       “Melting Pot” a place where a variety of races or indivuals assimilate into cohesive whole

2.       “Salad Bowl” its mixed combined to make unique culture

3.       “Assimilation”the process where by mionority group gradully adapts to custom and preveling cultres

4.       “Acculturation”explain the process of cultral and phychogcial charge the result following meeting between culters

5.       “Enculturation”is used to describe the process of first culture learning accultraion can be thought of as secod cultre learning

Complete the sentence with words from the text:

Acculturation often results in changes to    ( cultures ,   ( customs )   and ( social institution), as well as changes in food, ( clothing) and ( language).

Give a synonym:

varied	diverse	respect	honor	dominate	control
multiple	several	central	middle	interacting	communicate
specific	particular	represents	stands for	adopt	accept

Give the opposite:

varied	unvaried/homogeneous	respect	disrespect	gradually	rapidly
multiple	few	common	rare	dominant group	minority
specific	general	contrasted with	similar to	adopt	reject

Culture and Personality in Anthropology

Read the section about Culture and Personality in Anthropology. Answer these questions about that section:-

1.       Define “Anthropology” in your own words the study of thenature and essence of humankind.

2.       Define “movement” in this context

3.       What do you understand by “socialization of children” Give an example

4.       Read this sentence again and give examples of childrearing in different societies and cultures: “socialization creates personality patterns. It helps shape people’s emotions, thoughts, behaviors, cultural values and norms to fit into and function as productive members in the surrounding human society. The study of culture and personality demonstrates that different socialization practices such as childrearing in different societies (cultures) result in different personality types.”
answer : (food) (clothing) ( language ) ( marriage ) and religion

5.       Read this sentence again and say to what extent you agree: “all humans are the same when born, but childrearing in different societies causes deviations in behavior and personalities from each other.”

6.       Reflect on the reading above. Can you see a link between your culture and your personality? Think about that in relation to your own culture first, and then think about personality and culture in a different society. Reflect. Give examples.
answer : (my culture is my behavior and personality we was taught in our culture that involves our personality as well)

Everest climbing teasm :Cultural diversity -portfolio #3

Everest climbing team: Cultural Diversity

Watch the film and take notes to answer the following questions:

1.    List the team members by name, with their duties and country

Name                         Responsibility                     Country                     Skills

-- Jamling: find ways to the top of mountains India Guide (nepal)

- Seggara: make roads on mountains Spain Mountain climbing(spain)

- Roger: researching rocks Geologist(england)

- ED: victor lead his team USA Leader(usa)

- Sumio: recording the trip details Documentary(japan)

- Pula

2.    What were the qualities or skills of each member that benefited the team?

most of them were climbers and few had different skills

3.    How was the Team helped by ‘cultural diversity’ to attain their goal (reach the summit of Everest)?

      everyone used his own cultural diversity and helped each other and they presented their cultural diversity among  all of the climbers and the others they helped each other while everyone was from a different country and different cultural