Reflective Essay # 2

Reflective Essay

 

No one can deny that the stereotype, prejudice and discrimination are playing the vital rules in our life and we cannot imagine function without them. This essay will explain and discuss the meaning and examples of these three things.

 

Firstly, stereotype is a thought that may be accept and thought for each one may also port unique aspects that may complement or contradict the others. For example, now days some people says that people from the other countries are going to celebrate the Eid in UAE especially the city of Dubai. Due to this, some people believe that Dubai will be busy and the Emirate people will not be relaxing when they go there. This couldn’t be 100 percent true.

 

When Stereotype improves and sticks to our minds it defines as prejudice. There are a lot of examples of prejudice around as such as ableism , ageism , classism  and Racism. Ableism is prejudice against the disables. People treat them as they are from another world and they decline to offer them jobs. Next is ageism, ageism is defined as dealing with people depending in their ages. As an example, old people can’t work after the retirement age. In addition to ableism and ageism there is classism. Classism is treating people depending on their class. For instance, people who are “high class’’ are being served faster and in a better way in some restaurants. Lastly is racism, racism is dealing with people stating on their skin’s color. When Black people sit in the back and whites in the front, this demonstrates a clear example of the racism.

 

Finally are discriminations. Discrimination is an action based on prejudice and stereotype. For example, Sexism is when the males think that women are driving badly. Moreover, Religious bigotry such as two people from different religions has a racist conversation because of their religions or believes.

 

In conclusion, from what has been mention above that we can see that the stereotype , prejudice and discrimination have a negative and positive reaction. So, I believe that if they stop rolling of this idea it may have a good effect in our life.

Group project

 

 

My Reflective on the video

Mind Your Language

 

In this video there are lot of Cultural Diversity, such us religion, nationality, age, language and traditional. However, this video makes us see that there is racism between the students in the class, which makes the teacher doing a hard ways to minimize this racism. Therefore, I believe that this mixture of people from differs culture will make the class more heartiness because all of them will understand that there is no different between the human on this life. Moreover, there is another thing of cultural diversity which is the stereotype. For example, when you start to see this video, you may see joke between the students.

Course Goal 1 Revision

LSS 2053 Course Goal 1 Revision

Answer the following revision questions in paragraphs of about 50 words each. In your answers you should use examples from your own experience where possible.

 

1.       Which types of Cultural Diversity exist at ADMC? Give an example from each of the ten categories in your table of ten. Say whether each one is a Challenge or a Benefit.

 

There are many types of culture diversity in our college. For example, our cultural diversity teacher comes from UK and she is very nice teacher because she’s respect all people from others nationality. Ms’ Alexandra is a Christian which main that the mother language for her is English so she’s work very hard to makes us understanding because our mother language is Arabic. Also, we share same food like rice and meat. People from UAE wear Kandora as their traditional cloth as well as the Ghatra. Finally, they care about nation day because they believe that it was part of the history.

 

 

 

 2.       Define and give an example of Acculturation.

 

(Acculturation)  main where people learn to adapt to other customs and keep their own customs. For example, my girlfriend Emma she is respects our traditional clothes which main respect our religion. 

 

 

 

 

3.       Explain how child-raising in different cultures can have an effect on personality.

 

(If a person living in a society that thrives where history and tradition will be followed even if the old fashioned) .

 

 

 

4.       Explain the difference between a “melting pot” and a “garden salad” related to immigration to a country such as UK, USA, Australia for example.

 

-             Melting pot which being used in United State they make the immigration forget our own like it      does not exist. Actually now in these day, immigrants will be distinct as the original country that they come from and their original culture.

 

 

 

5.       How can Multiculturalism have a positive effect on a large company?

Multiculturalism can make an idea that making the company stronger for example they will share a different ideas which main a different skills and solve all the problems that they will faced  in the future I think it will make the company more stronger.

 

 

 

 

 

Week 5 -Reflective Task 2 - Challenges and Benefits of Cultural Diversity

Challenges and Benefits of Cultural Diversity

 

It’s unquestionable that cultural diversity is playing the vital roles in our life and teaches us many things about the human in different society. Nevertheless, some people believe that cultural diversity has bad effect in our life because they think it caused an increase in racism among people. I am in agreement with people who claim that culture helps us to develop our skills. This essay will discuss and explain the challenges and benefits of cultural diversity.

 

There are many advantage of cultural diversity. First of all, culture diversity helps us to learn different experiences from the other nationality. For example, the language is necessary to communicate with others people. Moreover, we can see that they can help us to improve our education skills. For example, they teach us about new technology to make the study easier. Furthermore, I believe that the economy is most important things in our country such us, in marketing and also in advertisement to attract the consumers.

 

On other hand, some people believe that the cultural diversity have bad effect in our life. To begin with, they think it’s the mean reasons for the move disease. In Addition to that, they also believe that the traditional can learn the society bad habits so they will forget our own. Finally, they see that it normally will raise the problem in the county because the racism.

 

In conclusion, from what has been mention above we can see that there are many positive and negative of cultural diversity. However, I think that cultural diversity helps us to develop our country and our skills.

 

Week 1 lesson 1 ( I fixed again )

Categories/Name	Napoleon	Mary	Shahida	Macdonald	Maher	Soheil
Gender	Male	Female	Female	Female	Male	Male
Age	38	43	29	35	27	34
Nationality	British	Canadian	Bangladesh	Scottish	Emirati	Pakistani
Language	English	English	Urdu	English	Arabic	Urdu
Class	Medal	Rich	Poor	Medal	Rich	Poor

Week 3 lesson 1

Quiz – What are Multiculturalism, 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 ( many )
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”	FALSE ( salad bowl )
5.       Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	FALSE ( host )

 

Define in your own words:

1.       “Melting Pot” (  people of different cultures are to forget their culture and learn another )

2.       “Salad Bowl”  ( people of different cultures learn about another culture and keep their own identity )

3.       “Assimilation”(where people learn to adapt to other customs be similar to them               )             

4.       “Acculturation” ( where people learn to adapt to other customs and keep their own customs)

5.       “Enculturation” ( learning your own culture )

Complete the sentence with words from the text:

Acculturation often results in changes to _culture ___________________, _______customs________________and _____________social______________________, as well as changes in food, ______clothing______________ and ______language____________________________.

Give a synonym:

varied	different	respect	except	dominate	Take over control
multiple	many	central	main	interacting	Working with
specific	exact	represents	illustrates	adopt	Take in

 

Give the opposite:

varied	Similar	respect	disrespect	gradually	instantly
multiple	similar	common	rare	dominant group	Minority group
specific	general	contrasted with	Compared 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 universal ) 

2.       Define “movement” in this context ( the development of something )

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

(The interaction of children with other people)

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.”

(If a person living in a society that thrives where history and tradition will be followed even if the old fashioned)

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.”

(I am 100% agree, because when they born they don’t have any idea and what are they going to do in the near future)

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.

(I can see that there are relationship between culture and personality. So, I think that comes from the parents. Moreover, and for others traditional I think it will be same idea but the values may change)