Reflective essay 4

There is some quotations that were said by famous people have a big effect in our personality and in our life what make us active in our society. In this essay I will explain and discuss some quotations that I have chosen it.

Firstly, when Sheikh Zayed said:  "A nation without a past is a nation without a present or a future”.  Its mean that every country should save their tradition and don’t forget it whatever happens. And the country will never develop if the person forgets his past.  So if you want to keep progress with the development you should not forget your past.  

Secondly, “A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and souls of its people”.  Said by Mahatma Gandhi in1940. And it’s mean when the person love his nation he will do all the requires that his country want from him. And he will keep learn new thing and will benefit his country by it to make his country in the top.

Thirdly, Sheikh Zayed said that: “wealth is not a wealth of money, that the real wealth of the nation is its people”. It’s mean that you have to teach the people of your country and make them the best in everything that’s what we called a real wealth, but money not wealth because the people make the money not money make the people.

 

Finally, I think that we should work with these quotations and teach it to every generation that we can make from them leaders of the future.

Quotations by Famous People

LSS 2053 Cultural Diversity Learning Objective 3

Quotations by Famous People

With a partner, research the internet to find the missing categories. Write the meaning of the quotation in your own words:

Cultural Views

	Speaker and Date	Quotation	Meaning
1.	Dwight Eisenhower, January 20, 1953	A people* that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. * means “a race of people”	Its means that every nation offering privileges on principles will lose everything.
2.	Martin Luther King Jr., 16 April 1963	All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.	He’s describing life as a network which is connected all together which makes everyone involved in it by force and every person is a part of this network of mutuality.
3.	Sheik Zayed	"A nation without a past is a nation without a present or a future.	Any country that doesn’t value its past, can’t appreciate its present or future. This country, thanks to God, has a rich past, does well for now and its expected future.
4.	1.      Mahatma Gandhi, 1940.	A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and souls of its people.	When the people love their nation they will do everything for the country to make it in the top.
5.	Amin Maalouf	Traditions deserve to be respected only insofar as they are respectable – that is, exactly insofar as they themselves respect the fundamental rights of men and women.	A respectful tradition comes from the people. If each gender will respect the limits and admit the rights of each other, the result will be a respectful life.
6.	ML King Jr.	I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.	God doesn’t care about skin color. God cares about freedom for everyone.
7.	Desmond Tutu	My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.	All of us are looking  for the same love and peaceful life and it only can spread by sharing it with each other and that what makes us human.
8.	Frank Borman	"When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?”	Looking at the earth from space, one wonders why we can’t get along decently.
9.	Pablo Casals	The love of one’s country is a splendid thing, but why should it stop at the border?	Spread your love of your country to the world and don’t make it stop. Whatever you face don’t stop it.
10.	DD. Eisenhower	The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.	If people of the world can’t get along, nothing will work.
11.	Sheikh Zayed, 1970	Many countries go to war and then towards reconciliation. The history of mankind is full of stories of wars between people and states that have come together after fighting for long. Why can't Arabs be like them?	Arabs should try to live in peace and to join with other countries with staying away from war.
12.	Martin Luther King, Jr, August 28, 1963	I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.	Don’t starts judging people before you get to know them, not every book can be read by its title. He wishes that this day will come where people will stop prejudging each other.

 

Ethnocentrism Task

Ethnocentrism

 

 

 

 

1. On the lines below, write a definition of Ethnocentrism. Find one on the web.

 

The belief that one’s ethnic or culture group superior than other cultures. Or each group nourishes its own pride and vanity boasts itself superior, exalts its own divinities and looks with contempt on outsiders. For example when Hitler burned and killed millions of Jews because he is Nazi.   

 

 

2. Read the cartoon. How is Ethnocentrism reflected in the conversation below?

 

 

 

Write your answer on the lines below.

The carton shows that the cat clearly believes that his own culture is the best one and he does not see why he should bother learning about cultures other than his own.  

 

 3. Looking at the cartoon characters.

 

Imagine them in social situations. What kind of people would (would n’t) they associate with? What kind of events (movies, shows) would (would n’t) they prefer to go? Think of other situations.

 

Describe Bucky

 

Bucky clearly does not care about anyone other than himself. And he only associate with people from his culture and he will go to events that only related to his culture.

Describe the man talking with Bucky. Let’s call him Tom

 

 

Tom likes to know about other cultures and willing to associate with other different cultures and try to learn from the other cultures.

 

4. Drawing Ethnocentrism.

 

On a separate sheet of paper, make a drawing of Ethnocentrism. You don’t have to draw well.

 



 

ISMS

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Reflective Essay 2

Reflective Essay 2

 

We faced a lot of difficulties to understanding the others in our life. And the terms stereotype, prejudice and discrimination are often used in our daily conversation. So in this essay am going to explain the stereotype, prejudice and discrimination and show you what the people think about it.

 Firstly, stereotyping means oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person, but that belief may or may not exactly reflect the reality. And for examples many of people think that all Asian people are geniuses and that i think is a positive stereotype, and i will give a negative example about stereotype that the west people think that all Muslims are terrorist.    

Secondly, prejudice means a prejudgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts. And an example of prejudice is when owners of expensive cars can enter and stop anywhere, But owners of normal cars cant.

Thirdly, discrimination means unequal treatment of group or individuals, usually on the basis of gender, race, age or religion. And it’s an action based on stereotype and prejudice. One of the examples of discrimination is younger person is preferred over an older person for many jobs.

In the end, the people should love each other and don’t make any difference between them, and they should respect everyone without regards to his nation, gender or even to his religion because this will generates hatred.

Comments on the video and song lyrics

Comments on the video and song lyrics.

 

 



Comment on the video:

 

It’s nice and funny video and even explains for us some examples of ISMS. So i see in this video some examples of ISMS which is Sexism and Religious bigotry. Sexism when the principle of the school Ms. Courtney  requested the local authority to have a women teacher not a man because she thinks that the male sex has no stamina reverse the female that has more stamina than males. And for Religious bigotry when the teacher Mr. Brown asked from Ranjeet (a devout Punjabi Sikh) to sit next to Ali (Pakistani Muslim) he said it’s impossible; because he’s Sikh and Ali is Muslim.

 

 

 

 



 

1) Can you recommend another song which deals with a similar subject?

 - Actually I didn’t find any English song from my experience that deals with a similar subject to this song.

2) Do  you think music can help to unie people?                                                                                                                                                                                                  - I think music’s has a big effect on people and due to that I think the music’s help the people to be unite.

My comment on the song lyrics:

This song gives me hope that maybe one day we can all live with peace and understanding. We need to trying so hard to teach knowledge and try teaching understanding; if we can all do that then we can all truly live happy.   

Course goal 1 revison

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 is a big Cultural Diversity in ADMC, and for example the gender in ADMC there is a male and female and I think this one of the college benefit to get used to each other and this will help them in their work life and marital life. And even you can see religion diversity in ADMC such as Islam, Christian and Hindu, and this is a benefit that make everyone should respect the other religion’s. And also there is a big benefit for the student which it a language diversity, which will make the students learn new language like French or Indian, but most of teachers speaks English so the student can improve his English by talking with the teacher .
2.       Define and give an example of Acculturation.

Is the process which can an individual or group made its way to acquire the cultural qualities of another group through communication or interaction between them . and one of the examples of Acculturation is music. Where people from different cultures listen to music’s for another cultures. Like the Arabs people listen to English music’s.

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

child-raising in different cultures is the difficult job faced the parents nowadays, where the children will be more open than before because of the development of technology so they can learn anything about other cultures whatever its bad or good thing in fast way and this is the big problem that faced the parents in child-raising.

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 is a country where mixes of races, peoples and cultures and the example for that  is USA, that every group comes from other country they don’t see where they come from or who they are they mix them with other groups and erase or forget the old country. And Garden salad is a different cultures mixed together to make a unique culture.  And an example about garden salad is the china town in USA.

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

Sort of dialogue between different cultures in the community can learn about the other cultures in the community as their customs, traditions and values.  And even the Multiculturalism will make you respect the other cultures and will give the other cultures the freedom and equality between the people.

What are the Challenges and Benefits of Cultural Diversity?

                           What are the Challenges and Benefits of Cultural Diversity?

 

     Cultural Diversity is a driving force of development in our country, not only on the level of economic growth, but also it's a way to live a life of intellectual and moral more complete. And cultural diversity contributes to create a dialogue between different civilizations and cultures and achieve mutual respect and understanding between people. And cultural diversity have a benefits and challenges that what i will explain it in my essay.

 

Firstly, the benefits of Cultural Diversity consist in 4 points.
1^st) Learning new languages: because of different people come to our country so we learn new language to deal with them and to understand them.
2^nd) Exchange Experience: people come to our country so they have different skills so we have to contact with them to improve our skills.
3^rd) Make different relationship: because of having more communicate with the society and to live in peace and meeting new people with different ideas.
4^th) Development of economic activity: Serves the interest of the country due to the people where they come to our country they have skills that serve the companies and increase their income.

Secondly, the challenges of Cultural Diversity consist in 3 points.

1^st) increase the crimes: because of the cultural diversity the people come to our country with bad habits so they apply it in our country.
2^nd) Racism: This big negative point in the cultural diversity because of some society didn’t accept people from different nation.
3^rd) Spread of disease: This is a dangerous case of cultural diversity that we should take enough proceeding to protect our self.

 In the end, I think we should solve the challenges of Cultural Diversity and we should awareness the people to have a good society and better life.

 

Quiz – What are Multiculturalism, Assimilation and Acculturation?

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 – described as a society with a multiple  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 – by a salad bowl
5.       Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	False – learning the culture of host culture

 

Define in your own words:

1.       “Melting Pot”    a country where mixes of races, peoples, and cultures

2.       “Salad Bowl” leaving together in the same country with keeping your identity.

3.       “Assimilation” observing the new culture and forgetting the original one. 

4.       “Acculturation”  a learning of a new culture

5.       “Enculturation” learning different culture 

Complete the sentence with words from the text:

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

Give a synonym:

varied	Many	respect	Esteem	dominate	rule
multiple	Manifold	central	Dominate	interacting	cooperating
specific	Exact	represents	Signifies	adopt	assume

 

Give the opposite:

varied	Sole	respect	Disrespect	gradually	Suddenly
multiple	General	common	Rear	dominant group	Minority group
specific	Unspecific	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

-          Is a science that studies the properties of human nature and how to cope in the new environment

2.       Define “movement” in this context

-          movement is the changes of personality by years that effect on the culture

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

-          Is that the children behave the social and understand how to community with the others.

-          Exampels: School and home

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.”

-          Childrearing in Middle East in the past all the fathers when they get a baby they took him to the desert to learn and to be strong.

-          Child Rearing in europe depend on study and to let the baby have fun and respect

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 agree because every society has different way to childrearing  and different thinks and different goals.

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.

-          Yes, I see a link between the culture and my personality. For example am active and sometimes moody and almost of the people in my culture are the same.

And in Japanese society they Respect every one because of their culture.