Reflection

We started filming at Sheikh Zayed Mosque. We asked 3 tourists but we included two only. After asking the tourists we gathered at Fahad's place. Abdulla started talking about the first two artifacts which is the dela and the fenyal, and demonstrated the two gestures about how to ask for more coffee and how you had enough. Then Fahad started talking about falconry in the past and in the present. Lastly, Abdulla interviewed Khalid and asked him a few questions about our culture and how to preserve it. I was the photographer and we used Khalid's camera. After composing the film, Fahad edited it and rendered the movie then he uploaded it to YouTube. In the class discussion, our teacher Mr Hedley asked a few questions about how the culture will change; Abdulla's answer is our culture will heavily change in time. Five people participated in our movie, me, Fahad, Ahmed, Khalid and Abdulla. Overall the movie was good; however, when we filmed at Sheikh Zayed Mosque the sound quality was bad because there was no microphone. The movie could be better if we added some more clips and we should have commented on the falcon training.

Brown Eyed vs Blue Eyed

The video of the brown and blue eyes was a good example about discrimination. The clip showed how strong discrimination can be and what problems it can cause. First, the teacher favored blue-eyed children over brown-eyed children thus blue-eyed children abused this and started to bully the brown-eyed children. After that, when the teacher favored brown-eyed over blue-eyed there was something that shocked the teacher and that is brown eyed children showed no mercy even though they had been discriminated against the previous day and they should have known the feeling. After many years, there was a school reunion which reunited the students of that experiment. The students did understand the purpose of the experiment and they said that they have a better understanding of the term discrimination and why it should be removed from every single culture.

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Glossary

Culture: the shared values, history, customs etc of a people.

Diversity: differences e.g. race, gender, economic status, religion etc.

Cultural diversity: a multicultural society where it is understood that each individual is different re. race, gender, economic status, religion, physical abilities etc. When this occurs we have social harmony i.e. peaceful co-existence of people from different backgrounds. In such a society there will be cross-cultural communication, where people from differing backgrounds can communicate and avoid conflicts and can even adopt aspects of other cultures i.e. acculturation. In this type of society there will be a widely-shared belief in human rights, basic freedoms which belong to all people regardless of colour, language, religion etc.

• Bias: If you are biased it means you have an idea that someone or something is superior to another for no logical reasons. it is similar to prejudice,e.g.racial prejudice in apartheid south Africa

Culture shock:This is when you find aspects of another culture so different from your own.

Demographics:The study of the population and its components parts.

Discrimination:There was racial discrimination in apartheid south Africa.N.B. blue eyes vs brown eyes.

Ethnic group: its a group which shares similar race, religion, language,whatever.

Ethnocentricity: its looking at the world from your own ethnic point of view ; it implies that your ethnicity is superior. 

Expatriate: someone from one country living and working in another; not a tourist, not a businessman on a short visit.

LSS Cultural Diversity

Introduction to Cultural Diversity

UAE Demographics:

Ethnic Groups	Percentage	Year	Source
Indians	30%	2010	Wikipedia
Pakistanis	21%	2010	Wikipedia
Emirati	13%	2010	uaestatistics.gov.ae
Filipinos	8.47%	2007	Wikipedia
Iranians	6.25%	2012	Gulfnews.com
Americans	0.3%	2010	Wikipedia

Religions	Percentage	Year	Source
Muslims	55%	2010	Wikipedia
Hindu	25%	2010	Wikipedia
Christians	10%	2010	Wikipedia
Buddhist	5%	2010	Wikipedia
Others	5%	2010	Wikipedia

1. Write a definition of cultural diversity in your own words.

- It’s the understanding of the differences between the people (religion, gender, culture, etc.) in a multicultural society

2. Give examples of cultural diversity in Abu Dhabi (Places of worship, organizations, etc).

- Places of worship such as mosques and churches.

- Multi-language support in government issued papers.

- Language such as Arabian, English, Hindu.