Blog Exercise #1 - Ten Aspects of Cultural Diversity

Blog Exercise #1 - Ten Aspects of Cultural Diversity

Name Fahad Saeed

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1.   Look at these ten aspects which make up your cultural identity. Then, fill in the last two columns – one for somebody who works for your family and one for an expatriate friend. There are other aspects of cultural diversity but these are the main ones.

Aspect	‘ism’	Frankie	Mohamed	Your Family Employee	Your Expatriate Friend
Race/Ethnicity	Racism (Racist)	White British	Emirati	Iranian	yamani
Language		English	Arabic	Arabic	Arabic and english
Religion	Religious bigotry (a religious bigot)	Christian (Protestant)	Muslim (Sunni)	muslim	muslim
Values and beliefs		Socialist	Carnivore	carnivore	Socialist
Disability	Ableism	Able	Able	able	able
Class	Classism	Middle Class	High Class!	High class	Low class
Gender	Sexism (Sexist)	Female	Male	male	male
Age	Ageism (Ageist)	60	20	23	21
Educational Background		M.Ed.	Undergraduate	graduate	undergradute
Sexual Orientation	Hetrosexualist (Homophobic)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

 

2. How many countries are there in the world today?  196

3. How many ethnic groups are there in the world today? 5000 and more

Here is an incomplete list of ethnic groups. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_ethnic_groups

4. How many ethnic groups are there living in the UAE? 5

 

 

 

5. What is wrong with this chart?  UAE Emirati is the smallest

 

6. What percentage of the UAE population is Emirati in 2014?  11.5%

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/influx-of-foreigners-spikes-uae-population-to-8-3m-1.787518

 

7. Why is the percentage so small?  Because UAE is new country while other country starts before more than 100 years .

8. The UAE's population strategy plans to make Emiratis the majority in the country or up to 35 per cent, by 2012, members of the Federal National Council (FNC) told Gulf News.

9. Do you think this will happen?  yes

10. Why do you think this? nowadays Emiratis have many easy methods to get  marriage and have a good health care. And that’s help them to increase Emiratis.

11. Do you have any different ethnic groups in your ancestry or your family today?  No we always have same ethnic

12. What are the benefits of having a mixed cultural heritage? Develop and sharing good idea to build the country in different ways.