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.

 



 

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