Ten Aspects of Cultural Diversity

These are the ten aspects of cultural diversity which we are going to concentrate on

in this course.

1)      Download Popplet Lite (free app) from the App Store, and then make a Popplet like the diagram below. Put yourself in the centre. Around yourself put the names of six people you know who are not Emirati. Fill in the boxes. What makes them

2) Define yourself as an Emirati. Write a short paragraph.

Example – I was born in Abu Dhabi and my nationality is Emirati.

My name is ahmed abdulkareem I was born in Abu Dhabi, my nationality is Emirati, am 18 years old my religion is Muslim, i love music all kind of it. Iam Arabic so I speck Arabic.____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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3)  Now, let’s complete the table below, based on our class discussion:

Main Category	Sub-Category	Example
1. Religion	Hindu, Muslim, Christian	My teacher is a Christian.
2. Ethnicity	Arab, African American	50 cen is an African american
3. Language	Arabic ,English, Chinese	Ms.kim specks kim
4. Value and belief systems	Atheist	Indian worship cows
5. Disability	Blind, deaf,mute	tomas is deaf
6. Class	Working class, middles, upper class	Ahmed is a working class
7. Gender	Male.female	sara is a female
8. Age	Child.young,old	Heisenberg is 53 years old
9. Education background	Highschool degree	My brothers has a mechanical engendering degree
10. Race	Black,white,asian

*The world population can be divided into 4 major races, namely white/Caucasian, Mongoloid/Asian, Negroid/Black and Australoid. This is based on a racial classification made by Carleton S. Coon in 1962.  There is no universally accepted classification for “race”, however, and its use has been under fire over the last few decades. The United Nations, in a 1950 statement, opted to “drop the term ‘race’ altogether and speak of “ethnic groups”. In this case, there are more than 5,000 ethnic groups in the world, according to a 1998 study published in the Scientific American.  http://blog.world-mysteries.com/science/how-many-major-races-are-there-in-the-world/