Personal Reflection #3 - Stereotyping & Bias

As part of human nature is to judge people not caring what society they came from or knowing their background is what we trying to say that we are human, when someone asks why? The simplest answer to that because we are human. True but that doesn’t make me an educated person if that was the answer to such question.

Sometimes we pre-judge people by their look, dress, talk, age , gender and many others it’s just that kind of image about someone appears to you when seeing him for the first time, That might be true but not always. One thing that came to my mind that I would seen people been judged for the country they came from. For example an Indian or Pakistani many of them live in Europe to such reason but I have seen even if they have European passports they will still be judge because they that this person is originally from an Asian country.  Even Islam prohibit such treatment to others, it’s the 21 century we should be more knowledge and mature  enough to understand that what we call it a part of human nature is wrong.

Stereotyping & Blue Eyes Video-Portfolio #6

With a partner, please answer the following. You may use internet resources to help you.

1. Define:

a. Stereotyping: judging someone or an entire group of people based on what some of them may do.

b. Prejudice: you’re feeling toward individuals based on group of perceptions.

c. Bias: not neutral.

d. Discrimination: Any action that denies opportunities to a person on the basis of their race

2. Give an example of each term

a. Stereotyping: All students are lazy

b. Prejudice: working in a group with people don’t like to do anything

c. Bias: giving someone you know an advantage in getting in line just because I know him

d. Discrimination: white against black.

Watch Class Divided

üUnderstanding

With partners, answer the following:

1.     Where, when and with whom did this experiment take place?  3^rd graders from a public school in US year 1969.

2. Describe the experiment. Blue eyes people were treated better than brown eyes then they exchanged the experiment

3. What were the results? 1st experiment: brown eyes felt insulted. 2nd experiment: blue eyes felt the same when they exchanged the experiment.

4. How successful do you believe it was? Not to judge people from their eye color look different from others

Personal Reflection #4 Gap year

A gap year is a time between school and university when student usually go abroad and travel around the world to gain more experience and learn about what they want to do about their career so they can easily choose what course they want to enroll in when they enter the university instead of studying something they are not passionate about. The advantage of having a gap year that it helps many students to be independent and it teaches them more on how to depend on themselves. I think that emirates students should go for a gap year that for it will benefit them not just in their studies even in their future life, I know that some have already have that kind of experience by traveling with their families or relatives, that’s why I suggest student to go for it and have the adventure as well as the knowledge and experience.

Obama and cultural diversity portfolio exercise #8

Obama and Cultural Diversity

 

How many aspects of cultural diversity/ i.e. different groups or types of people does he mention in his speech?

How many different types of people does he call on to work together?

He mentioned black or white , Asian, Native American, Spanish, old or young , rich or poor , able or disable , gay or straight .

* to show people that when they are all together they will be stronger

Personal Reflection #5 what did i learn in this course ? and how will i aply it

This course taught me a lot of things and made well acknowledged about the divers of cultures around the world, what I have learn that different cultures with different aspects need to be respected and known. Nowadays one country lives in it more than nationalities with different cultures and from my point of view I learned how to live with it and how not just to accept their culture but to be educatited by them teaching about theirs same how I am teaching them mine.

Other thing that I have learn from this course is new vocabulary some of the words were familiar to me others were new and bassied on the that I have improved my English, one of the things I liked about this course is the knowledge got from how to act and train myself with hand signals, body language, stereotyping and many other things. Even when we talked about volunteering that I presented in my presentation, volunteering is what I spend my free time doing it special in summer. I didn’t know the exact meaning of having a gap year and I wish I have known that before so I can explore the world by visiting one of the counties and live there for some time learning their language knowing their culture and tradition. I think this course gained me a lot of knowledge and information so I am really to have such course.

The benefits of volunteering that it has a big positive impact to our society, that type of experience you get when volunteering abroad.

 When asking about who gains more from volunteering in developing countries? I think both of the children’s & volunteers gain knowledge and experience. Volunteering can get you a lot of skills, some discover that while volunteering and others have type of skill and ready to improve and developing it. Children’s gain knowledge, education and even having fun in other way.

I think that volunteering abroad give you a lot of experience, new skills, language and a lot more, but what’s more important is what you give what you deliver to people whom are in need of help, education, supplies and whatever you give to society.

Volunteering in the UAE has been improving people are trying to help to do all they can give locally or worldwide.

Who are the Americans? Portfolio #3

Who are the Americans?

Discuss and note your ideas

Who lives in America? Where did they come from? When?

England , they came from Europe  in the 17^th century

Spain , they came from Europe , in the 17^th century

France , they came from Europe , in the 17^th century

Have you seen any films about people emigrating to America? Which?

No I didn’t

Were there any immigrants on The Titanic?

Yes there were immigrants on the titanic (http://www.titanic-nautical.com/RMS-Titanic-Immigration.html)

Research

Look at this website and study the data, especially the ‘by region’ information to find out where Americans come from: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/immigration_data/

1. Explore the historical timeline to see where the immigrants arrived from in different eras. Choose one link from ‘A New Land’, ‘Expanding America’ and ‘A Place of Refuge’ menus and note: Where did the people come from and why did they go to America.

A New Land:  they came from Europe  (Spain)( France) (England) most of them they immigrated because of freedom and food and resources

Expanding America: They had large of immigrates while the revolution war . in 19^th century 1 million slaves from Africa where imported there and they were not citizen  in early 19^th century nearly all immigrates was from western Europe  

A Place of Refuge:  world war 2 happened and the economy went down and it wasn’t the perfect land to go and the immigration percentage went down . some people thought of immigrating to some another country

2. Look at the ‘Building a Modern America’ – ‘A Multicultural America’ page. What information can you find about recent US immigration?  A major change to immigration legislation in 1965 paved the way for new waves of immigration from all over of the world. Asians and Latin Americans arrived in large numbers, while European immigration declined.

3. Now click on ‘Explore Ellis Island’ and answer the questions. (There is 1 question per page.)

·         Where did immigrants land when they arrived in America? Ellis Island Immigration Station between 1892 and 1954

·         How long did it take to cross the Atlantic? This trip across the Atlantic ocean lasted for one two weeks

·         What was the first thing people saw in America? Statue of liberty

·         What did the officers give the immigrants? Paper with all the names

·         What did the doctors do while the people walked upstairs? Test the people for any illness

·         Why couldn’t women enter America alone?

·         What did the chalk marks X and P mean? What happened to those people?

·         How many questions did they ask immigrants? Twenty nine questions

·         When did pre-departure health checks start?

·         What facilities were available at the bottom of the stairs?

·         What happened at ‘The Kissing Post’? it got this nickname because its where family and friends waited their loved ones

Think!

When people come to work in the UAE, what must they do? (Paperwork, procedures, tests…)

America is a multicultural society; it is culturally diverse. It is not a ‘melting pot’, it is more like a ‘salad bowl’. Americans often talk about being ‘first generation’, ‘second generation’ or third generation’ immigrants. ‘First generation’ is term used for the children of immigrants, ‘second generation’ is the term for the grandchildren of immigrants, so ‘third generation’ is ……………………………………………………? By the second or third generation, the connection with the immigrant’s country may be very weak or non-existent so we can say that these people have assimilated into the culture. Over the years, some people and cultural groups have assimilated into American society. They have blended and are examples of assimilation. When two cultures meet, acculturation happens. This is the meeting of the cultures and the process of adapting to each other and adopting new behaviours, which can be a one-way or two-way process. However, some groups may keep many of the customs, traditional ways and characteristics of their home culture even though they adapt to the new country. These people have acculturated by adopting new behaviours in their new country, but they have not assimilated. Immigrants and the first generation may acculturate but not assimilate, but later generations may be assimilated.