Sunday, October 14, 2012

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.

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