Blog Exercise #1 - Ten Aspects of Cultural Diversity

Ten Aspects of Cultural Diversity

Blog Exercise #1 - Ten Aspects of Cultural Diversity

Name : Ali Amer Ali

ID S990014429

1. Look at these ten aspects which make up yourcultural identity. Then, fill in the last two columns – one for somebody who works for your family and one for an expatriatefriend. 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	Saeed	germany
Language		English	Arabic	arabic	german
Religion	Religious bigotry (a religious bigot)	Christian (Protestant)	Muslim (Sunni)	Muslim (Sunni)	Christian
Values and beliefs		Socialist	Carnivore	sincerity	Credibility at work
Disability	Ableism	Able	Able	Able	Able
Class	Classism	Middle Class	High Class!	Lower Class	Middle Class
Gender	Sexism (Sexist)	Female	Male	Male	Male
Age	Ageism (Ageist)	60	20	25	20
Educational Background		M.Ed.	Undergraduate	High School Certificate	Undergraduate
Sexual Orientation	Hetrosexualist (Homophobic)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

2. How many countries are there in the world today? About 195 countries .

3. How many ethnic groups are there in the world today? Around 5000 Ethnic Group.

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? ( 12 )

5. What is wrong with this chart? The wrong in this chart is that South and South-East Asian are more than 60 % .. they are about 70 % !! .

6. What percentage of the UAE population is Emirati in 2014? About 16 percent .

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 , there a lot of foreigners people in the UAE

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

9. Do you think this will happen? No .. I don’t think so .

10. Why do you think this? Because , The UAE in need of Indian workers, engineers and foreign experts

11. Do you have any different ethnic groups in your ancestry or your family today?

No .. I don’t have .

12. What are the benefits of having a mixed cultural heritage?

Knowing more than one culture , having a great different informations and languages .

Post this on your blog by the end of the class.