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.

Extra ( Everest )

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Everest Climbing Team: Cultural Diversity

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

Name	Responsibility	Country	Skills
Ed Vesters	Team Leader	U.S.A	Climbing
Araceli seggara	Climber	Spain	Climbing
Sumiyo	Decampment	Japan	Climbing
Roger Diham	Scientist	England	Geologist
Jamling Norgate	Guide	Nepal	Climbing
Sharpa	food Deliver	Holland	Climbing
Paula	Camp Manager	U.S.A	Climbing

 

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

-Ed veisure: the leader that put the team plan to climb Everest mountain.

- Araceli seggara: climber who make a path in the mountain to climb and to reach to the top.

- Roger Diham: geologist who knew which parts of the mountain were more dangerous

-Jamling norgay a son of former everst climbing sucsesful and exprenced in climbing mounte everst he was guide, organizing stock and supply for the team.

-Sumiyo: climber who helped in document important moments while climbing to the top.

-Paula: the base camp manager who organized the camp

-Sharpres:were physically able to carry the equipment and supplies while rising.

-       The cook cooked the food for the team to keep them healthy and strong

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

- Team spirit, teamwork, motivation and correct planning were the elements of success, They came from different countries from the world they work to gather and face the challenge every part of them help in something every one has skills good in and they help each other to solve and face the problems and to clime the mountain. Them have a unique skill and a unique reasonability that helped the team. They were one hand to meet the challenge in climbing Everest Mountain even though they were a group from different part of worlds with different cultures.

Portfolio #4

Portfolio #4

           Diversity and Personal Conduct – vocabulary

1.      Civility / civilized :- formal or perfunctory politeness

2.       Acknowledge :- declare, adjudge, hold

3.       Inclusive / inclusion :- comprehensive

4.       Respect :- see, consider, reckon, view, regard

5.      Apology :-  a formal written defense of something you believe in strongly.

6.      Consideration :- the process of giving careful thought to something.

7.      Behavior :- manner of acting or controlling yourself.

8.      Responsibility :- the proper sphere or extent of your activities; "it was his province to take care of himself.

9.      Attention (pay) :- the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others

10. .Tolerance :- the power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions.

11.  Attitude (positive) :- a theatrical pose created for effect; "the actor struck just the right attitude.

12. Conduct :- perform, execute, do

13. Politeness :- a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage

14. Constructive (comment) :- creative

15. Kindness :- tendency to be kind and forgiving

YouTube URL :-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOBzPBJeblM

Portfolio #3

Portfolio #3

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, it is described as a society with different sets of values.
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 not melting bot
5.       Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	False, learning the customs and beliefs of a second culture.

Define in your own words:

1.       “Melting Pot”: different cultures mixed together forming 1 unique culture.

2.       “Salad Bowl”: different culture gathering together in one society without changing their own customs and beliefs.

3.       “Assimilation”: when a minority group adapts to the customs and beliefs of a major group.

4.       “Acculturation”: the act of second culture learning.

5.       “Enculturation”: the act of first culture learning.

Complete the sentence with words from the text:

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

Give a synonym:

Varied	Diverse	respect	Admiration	dominate	Control
Multiple	Manifold	central	Dominant	interacting	Cooperating
Specific	Precise	represents	Signifies	adopt	Accepts

Give the opposite:

Varied	Single	respect	Disrespect	gradually	Suddenly
Multiple	Few	common	Private	dominant group	Minor group
Specific	Vague	contrasted with	Agreed with	adopt	Forsake

Portfolio #2

Quiz – What is Cultural Diversity?

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

1.       At least 6000 different languages exist in the world.	True.
2.       Over 200 million people live outside the country where they were born.	False, 175m live outside the country they were born in.
3.       One aspect of Human Rights is respecting different cultures.	True.
4.       Cultural Diversity means a lack of respect for freedom of thought.	False, It means respecting the freedom of thought.
5.       Cultural Diversity can make a society stronger.	True.

Vocabulary practice. Define in your own words:

1.       Heterogeneous , Variety

2.       Plurality , Majority

3.       Migration , moving from a place to another 

4.       Fundamental, Basic

5.       Collective strength, The strength collected from different people

Now read the rest of the article, and answer these questions by researching on the internet.

1.       The article mentions food as an example of Cultural Diversity. Can you think of something else which could add interest and richness in a culturally diverse country?

Different types of music .

2.       Name three ways in which people of different cultures can help a country to function in the new global economy.

Trading , different perspective Solutions, Labor, Bringing Experts

3.       From the internet, in relation to Cultural Diversity, find a picture and a definition of “Melting pot” and “Garden salad”.

Melting pot: It’s a concept of many cultures being blended into one society. A place where immigrants of different cultures or races form an integrated society.

- Garden Salad: It’s a concept of many cultures in one society which each contributing its own ideas and identity to the society. But each keep committed to his original identity

4.        Britain today is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. Look on the internet and find out which nationalities make up the “ethnic minority population of over 4 million”.

Indians, and other White non British . 

5.       Australia is another of the most culturally diverse countries in the world.  The University of Melbourne has a policy on Cultural Diversity. Read the two paragraphs and summarize them in your own words.

The university of Melbourne have a system for cultural diversity that encompasses differences based on race, ethnicity, language, religion, value and belief systems, disability, class, gender, age and educational background. The university is seeking social harmony and cohesion that includes all staff and students so they value their cultures more and deepen their cross-cultural understanding

Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:

Varied	one	Increasingly	Decreasingly	Respecting	Disrespect
Strength	Weakness	Improving	Down grading	Inclusive	Exclusive
Majority	Minority	Tolerance	Intolerance	Equality	difference

Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:

Diverse	Variety	Creative	imaginative	Uniqueness	Exceptionality
Dignity	honor	Integrated	Included	Asset	Benefit
Global	World-wide	Benefit	profit	Harmony	Agreement