Portfolio #7

Obama and Cultural Diversity

Watch this video.

How many aspects of cultural diversity/ i.e. different groups or types of people does he mention in his speech? 
Give the main points of his speech and post it on your blog as portfolio exercise #7.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20233064

How many different types of people does he call on to work together?

• Black or White
• Asian or Spanik (Native American)
• Old or Young
• Rich or Poor
• Able or Disable 
• Gay or Straight

Reflection #4

Gap Year

A gap year is a period of time when students take a break from formal education to travel, volunteer, study, intern, or work. A gap year is also referred to as a late year, year out, year off, time out, and time off. A gap year experience can last for several weeks, a semester, or up to a year or more. Normally a gap year is taken between high school graduation and starting college, during college, or between college and starting graduate school or a career. Taking time out between high school and college used to evoke fear that the student would not follow through with college. Today, the college admissions offices at both private and state run colleges and universities are getting more requests from students to defer enrollment, and are freely granting these requests provided the student can demonstrate they have specific goals and will better prepare them to succeed in college. This trend is great news for colleges, students and parents. Given the fact that the dropout rate amongst US college freshman is nearly 30 percent (according to the National Center for Education Statistics), the gap year option is fast becoming a viable alternative for many students.

Stereotyping & Blue Eyes Video-Portfolio #6

Goal 2 Adverse Reactions to

Diversity – 2012 - Semester



With a partner, please answer the following. You may use internet resources to help you.

1. Define:a. Stereotyping : judging someone without knowing him / judging entire group of people based on what some of them may do. b. Prejudice : your feeling toward individuals based on group of perceptions.

c. Bias : not neutral . d. Discrimination : Any action that denies opportunities to a person on the basis of their race, gender, age, religion .
2. Give an example of each term
a. Stereotyping : All sudanis are lazy b. Prejudice :i dont want to work with this guy he will let me do all the work alone.c. Bias : I will help him and give him a good grades because he is my friend . d. Discrimination :dominant white against black .



Watch Class Divided
ü Understanding
With partners, answer the following:
1. Where, when and with whom did this experiment take place? 1969 , in the USA , public school with 3rd graders .
2. Describe the experiment. Blue eyes people are better than brown eyes they were treated differently then they exchanged the experiment
3. What were the results? 1st experiment : brown eyes felt insulted . 2nd experiment : blue eyes felt the same when they exchanged the experiment .
4. How successful do you believe it was? they felt happy when they knew that respecting others is better than judging them by color .

Who are the Americans?

Discuss and note your ideas

Who lives in America? Where did they come from? When?

England, they came from Europe in the 17^th century. Spain, they came from Europe , in the 17^th century. France, they came from Europe, in the 17^th century

Have you seen any films about people immigrating to America? Which?

No I didn’t

Were there any immigrants on The Titanic?

Yes there were immigrants on the titanic 

(http://www.titanic-nautical.com/RMS-Titanic-Immigration.html)

Research

Look at this website and study the data, especially the ‘by region’ information to find out where Americans come from: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/immigration_data/

1. Explore the historical timeline to see where the immigrants arrived from in different eras. Choose one link from ‘A New Land’, ‘Expanding America’ and ‘A Place of Refuge’ menus and note: Where did the people come from and why did they go to America.

A New Land:  they came from Europe (Spain)( France) (England) most of them they immigrated because of freedom and food and resources

Expanding America: They had large of immigrates while the revolution war . in 19^th century 1 million slaves from Africa where imported there and they were not citizen  in early 19^th century nearly all immigrates was from western Europe  

A Place of Refuge:  world war 2 happened and the economy went down and it wasn’t the perfect land to go and the immigration percentage went down . some people thought of immigrating to some another country

2. Look at the ‘Building a Modern America’ – ‘A Multicultural America’ page. What information can you find about recent US immigration?  A major change to immigration legislation in 1965 paved the way for new waves of immigration from all over of the world. Asians and Latin Americans arrived in large numbers, while European immigration declined.

3. Now click on ‘Explore Ellis Island’ and answer the questions. (There is 1 question per page.)

·         Where did immigrants land when they arrived in America? 

Ellis Island Immigration Station between 1892 and 1954

·         How long did it take to cross the Atlantic?

This trip across the Atlantic ocean lasted for one two weeks

·         What was the first thing people saw in America?

Statue of liberty

·         What did the officers give the immigrants?

Paper with all the names

·         What did the doctors do while the people walked upstairs?

Test the people for any illness

·         Why couldn’t women enter America alone?

·         What did the chalk marks X and P mean?

What happened to those people?

·         How many questions did they ask immigrants?

Twenty nine questions

·         When did pre-departure health checks start?

·         What facilities were available at the bottom of the stairs?

·         What happened at ‘The Kissing Post’?

 It got this nickname because its where family and friends waited their loved ones

Think!

When people come to work in the UAE, what must they do? (Paperwork, procedures, tests…)

America is a multicultural society; it is culturally diverse. It is not a ‘melting pot’, it is more like a ‘salad bowl’. Americans often talk about being ‘first generation’, ‘second generation’ or third generation’ immigrants. ‘First generation’ is term used for the children of immigrants, ‘second generation’ is the term for the grandchildren of immigrants, so ‘third generation’ is ……………………………………………………? By the second or third generation, the connection with the immigrant’s country may be very weak or non-existent so we can say that these people have assimilated into the culture. Over the years, some people and cultural groups have assimilated into American society. They have blended and are examples of assimilation. When two cultures meet, acculturation happens. This is the meeting of the cultures and the process of adapting to each other and adopting new behaviours, which can be a one-way or two-way process. However, some groups may keep many of the customs, traditional ways and characteristics of their home culture even though they adapt to the new country. These people have acculturated by adopting new behaviours in their new country, but they have not assimilated. Immigrants and the first generation may acculturate but not assimilate, but later generations may be assimilated.

Think again!

Why do/did some people/groups assimilate and others do/did not?

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2012

Personal Reflection #3 – Integrating Special needs Individuals into society

ulturation?