personal reflection #5

Cultural Diversity is a way of thinking, living and defending things around us. This is my first semester in collage, and a have 6 different courses none of them really relates to life, let’s say there just Theoretical. However Cultural Diversity really made me think, it defended a lot of things a was doing in my daily life Unconsciously, Enlightened me you can say. I learned really useful things on this course and I wish to go further learning about people, lifestyles, and ways of thinking. In this course I had great experiments as well one of them is the trip to future center, I really had a good time and thought about blisses that god gave me, how i should not waste it, and thank for it day and night. One greater thing a learned about is how people are different, how they have all these different life styles and ways of thinking. For example we emirates are beater in groups we preform beater think beater and almost everything. How Germans for another example are so strict. Without compliment this is my best and most beneficial course I ever had. Thanks Mister Gregory for always making it easy for us and thank you again for such a great experience in my life.

Hamad salem almansoori

Ceo

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Reflection #4

Gap years, a well-known idea in Europe and America, which is taking a year off after high school but to travel and work there, it may be a year or half year as you wish.
Gap years teach you how to be independent, self-confidence and give an experience of life after university.
In our country, people don’t like taking gap years, they think that if they took it then they return to the university it will be hard for them to get on with studying.
Never the less there some people that are forced to take it like those who had low marks in high school which made none of the governmental universities take them so they had to take a gap year to work and get some money to get in a private university.
Also there are some who took it because they didn’t want to study.
In my opinion Emiratis would be interested in gap years on these five or eight years, because there are people are taking it and talking about how exiting is it.
If you asked me, I would take a gap year in Saudi Arabia, there isn’t any specific thing I want to do but mainly I want to work near Mekka, I think Jeddah is the nearest place that I can get a good job from. The main connection that is between UAE and Cambodia is that the UAE is investing halal food in Cambodia

Personal Reflection #3

•Discrimination nowadays is much less than before. The world is changing every day. But the difference between today and before discrimination is discriminating about what and whom. I will talk about some situation where I faced, experienced, and saw discrimination.

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It can be clearly seen that, Arabs and Islamic people (Muslims) are discriminated in some countries but not all. Last summer I went to Bali, Indonesia. Bali’s people are all Hindu and Buddhist. There are very few Muslims that can be counted by fingers. In Indonesia, They hate Saudi’s people because of political reasons. So, In Bali we were discriminated for Islam and they think that we are Saudi’s. So, they treated us as they treated Saudi’s. But when we tell them that we are from UAE, they smiled and treated us happily. In that moment we felt like we want to kill them. Really it was a bad feeling to be discriminated to Islam and us.

On the other hand I think that media is playing a huge role on people thought about Islam and Arabs. That’s what causes a believer in people’s mind. These days, media is called the fourth Estate of a country. So, if want to change the thought of people we have to make use of the media and start to make movies and Ads that will affect the people. Not necessary by the TV, We can publish them on YouTube and social websites. And also by tourist who come to Arabian countries.

All in all, we hope that people remove the idea of discrimination from their mind and start a new thought and believe of the Arab countries and Islam especially

Portfolio #7

Obama's Speech 

Barack Obama in his speech, he called for unity and improvement for all the ethnic groups. Obama named the different groups one by one like; Black and white, Asian or Native American, young or old, Rich or poor, able of disabled, gay or straight. All for the sake of raising the morals of the people and giving them the hope they needed and he targeted the people in the middle class that are not comfortable in their lives and stated that he will be giving them their rights as Americans. Obama’s speech also had the type of content that American love for example, Americans love to be told that they live in the greatest country in the world thus, Obama made sure that his speech would clearly state that America is the greatest country and  he had the tone in his speech that grape the attention of the people, the kind of tone that is used to give courage and hope to people that seek improvement in their lives. 

Portfolio Exercise #6

Portfolio Exercise #6

PART 3: CAMBODIA CUSTOMS AND VALUES

Objective: To understand some similarities between Emirati and Cambodian Culture

Task: Compare Cambodian and Emirati values

Highlight in yellow all the values that are similar to Emirati values

A.   Traditional Cambodian values include a strong family identity and loyalty

B.   Cambodian-born people have a respect for culture and older people.

C.   Cambodian families tend to be very private and reluctant to discuss family issues or conflict with non-family members

D.   Stoicism is a highly valued Cambodian character trait, reducing the tendency to complain about their health or services they are receiving

E.   Modesty, particularly for women, is very important

F.    Visitors to Cambodian-born people’s homes are often expected to remove their shoes, however they might not ask

G.   Accepting of food and refreshments when offered may break down barriers, open communication and build trust

H.   Cambodian-born people regard touching people on the head or pointing feet or shoes at them as offensive.

I.      Cambodians consider it impolite to make eye contact with someone who is older or considered a superior

J.    Cambodians have a tendency not to question instructions or authority

K.   ‘Yes’ may be an ambiguous response to a question or request, and does not necessarily indicate agreement. Reponses that might mean ‘no’ include; no response, changing the subject, or statements such as ‘it’s OK’ or ‘no problem’ or even an unconvincing ‘yes’

L.    It may take time to develop working relationships, trust and rapport

M.   Loud or over-familiar behaviour towards others is generally not favoured.

N.   Cambodians tend to avoid showing anger or getting involved in confrontation

O.   Cambodians prefer to be addressed using their correct title. For example Mr, Mrs and Dr

P.   Women traditionally retain their own family names on marriage or they may have two surnames. Cambodian names are traditionally written with the surname first, followed by the given name.

Q.   Cambodians may not recognise their names if they are pronounced incorrectly

R.   Cambodians may not always address people by their name

UAE versus Cambodia

The UAE and Cambodia have many similarities in both traditions and people behavior. For example, In Cambodia tradition they have a very strong family identity and loyalty which is similar to UAE tradition. Moreover, both countries show high respect towards culture and elders. Furthermore, The Cambodians tend to be more stoic, they don’t show emotions however, the Emirates are close to affective they show more emotions and gestures when arguing to If they have something to say. In addition, both countries show respect to women and act modest among them. Overall, in my opinion I think that both cultures have very similar foundation with sew differences in religion acts and beliefs.

portfolio #5

Goal 2 Adverse Reactions to Diversity – 2012 - Semester

Course:      Cultural Diversity                                  Code:  LSS N2053

Name: hamad almansoori                             ID#  h00247473                     Name:alhusain ali                                  

ID#h00254754

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

1.      Define:

a.       Stereotyping : are characteristics ascribing to people involving gender, race, and nationality

b.      Prejudice : the unfavorable feeling formed below hand or without knowledge

c.       Bias : an oblique or diagonal line of direction across a warm fabric

d.      Discrimination :treatment or consideration of

2.      Give an example of each.

1.      When everybody thinks that Italian people have bad accents and love spaghetti that’s a stereotype.

2.      Some people might have a prejudice against all Muslims without knowing enough about Islam.

3.      Some referees of certain football games like one team more than the other and therefore their decisions might be bias.

4.      In the early 1900s there was an extreme amount of discrimination against black people In most parts of the world.

Watch  Class Divided

ü Understanding

With partners, answer the following:

1.      Where, when and with whom did this experiment take place?

 Third grade class in the 1960s in the mid U.S.A, third grade students

2.      Describe the experiment.

Trying to discriminate between children according to their eye colors to try and teach them not to discriminate , and to show them how it felt to be on the other side of social abuse.

3.      What were the results?

The students felt how it was to be discriminated against

4.      How successful do you believe it was?

I think it was very successful , because whenever one of these kids wanted to discriminate he/she would remember this day.

Personal Reflection #2

 A DAY AT THE FUTURE CENTER

 We went on a field trip to the future center ; which is basically a school for the disabled children .The future center is willing to take in any child with all sorts of disabilities except the ones with visual impairment , their main aim is to integrate the students with the outside world and not  have them isolated from society. A lot of challenges are faced in the future center, some are by the staff and others are faced by the students. The student’s main challenges are those of personal nature; they have to overcome their low self-esteem and try to fit well in the outside world. The other challenges that are faced by the staff are mostly concerning the participants (students); all the staff should have immense self-control and not snap on the students at any time. The future center have 182 students at the moment and have proudly graduated and integrated 74 students into the outside world either with mainstream schools or directly to jobs , as well as students with certain difficulties such as mobility or speech were able to do that for the first time at the future center. The future center wants to keep doing what they are doing and maybe even try to graduate and integrate even more students. The whole initiative of the future center wouldn't have been possible if it wasn't for the culturally diverse staff present at the facility. With each member of the staff having a different and a unique skill that is helping the future center move forward. The students as well are widely culturally diverse; most of them are from different nationalities.

All in all, it was a very rewarding day at the future center for us and the teacher, you cannot appreciate something rightfully enough until you have seen someone that lost it.