portfolio #5

Goal 2 Adverse Reactions to Diversity – 2012 - Semester

Course:      Cultural Diversity                                  Code:  LSS N2053

Name: hamad almansoori                             ID#  h00247473                     Name:alhusain ali                                  

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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.