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.

Quiz – What are Multiculturalism, Assimilation and Acculturation? Personal Reflection #3

Quiz – What are Multiculturalism, Assimilation and Acculturation?

True or False? If FALSE, write the TRUE answer.

1.       A Multicultural society can be described as a society with a single set of values.	False, culture in school
2.       A “salad bowl” represents varied and separate cultures.	True
3.       One aspect of Multiculturalism is respecting different cultures.	True
4.       Cultural Diversity can be represented by a “melting pot”	False, Salad Bowl
5.       Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	False, Learning the culture of your new country

Define in your own words:

1.       “Melting Pot” Different people from different countries get together in one country and become one culture.

2.       “Salad Bowl” Different cultures mixed together.

3.       “Assimilation” Everything mixed up becoming the same.

4.       “Acculturation” cultural assimilation is a socio-political reaction to demographic multiculturalism that supports the adjustment of cultural and ethnic sections into the main culture.

5.       “Enculturation” Is used to describe the process of first culture learning.

Complete the sentence with words from the text:

Acculturation often results in changes to Culture, Customs and institution as well as changes in food, Clothing and language.

Give a synonym:

varied	Diverse	respect	Esteem	dominate	Control
multiple	Many	central	Vital	interacting	Relating
specific	Exact	represents	Signifies	adopt	Assume

varied	homogeneous	respect	disrespect	gradually	rapidly
multiple	few	common	rare	dominant group	minority
specific	general	contrasted with	similar to	adopt	reject

Culture and Personality in Anthropology

Read the section about Culture and Personality in Anthropology. Answer these questions about that section:-

1.       Define “Anthropology” in your own words the study of thenature and essence of humankind.

2.       Define “movement” in this context

3.       What do you understand by “socialization of children” Give an example

4.       Read this sentence again and give examples of childrearing in different societies and cultures: “socialization creates personality patterns. It helps shape people’s emotions, thoughts, behaviors, cultural values and norms to fit into and function as productive members in the surrounding human society. The study of culture and personality demonstrates that different socialization practices such as childrearing in different societies (cultures) result in different personality types.”
answer : (food) (clothing) ( language ) ( marriage ) and religion

5.       Read this sentence again and say to what extent you agree: “all humans are the same when born, but childrearing in different societies causes deviations in behavior and personalities from each other.”

6.       Reflect on the reading above. Can you see a link between your culture and your personality? Think about that in relation to your own culture first, and then think about personality and culture in a different society. Reflect. Give examples.
answer : (my culture is my behavior and personality we was taught in our culture that involves our personality as well)

Everest climbing team:Cultural Diversity -Portfolio #3

Everest climbing team: Cultural Diversity

Watch the film and take notes to answer the following questions:

1.    List the team members by name, with their duties and country

Name                         Responsibility                     Country                     Skills

-- Jamling find ways to the top of mountains India Guide (Nepal)

- Seggara make roads on mountains Spain Mountain climbing(Spain)

- Roger researching rocks Geologist(England)

- ED victor lead his team USA Leader(USA)

- Sumio recording the trip details Documentary(japan)

- Paul

2.    What were the qualities or skills of each member that benefited the team?

most of them were climbers and few had different skills

3.    How was the Team helped by ‘cultural diversity’ to attain their goal (reach the summit of Everest)?

      everyone used his own cultural diversity and helped each other and they presented their cultural diversity among  all of the climbers and the others they helped each other while everyone was from a different country and different cultural

Personal Reflection #2

Based on discussions about Paralympics or people with disabilities & how that react on them and how they can be better integrated into society.

Ages ago families used to hide their children’s form society tell they grow up some even die at home and no one know about them, nowadays you can see them in the malls, playgrounds and everywhere you go they trying to be accepted by the society and people are accepting that even government been involved by introducing them to society by letting them work as normal people to be part of this society, now even they can go to normal schools like their other school mates.

Beyond all that they the way I see it you won’t feel like they have disabilities and all that came from the government and people helped them with everything to be part of the community.

Examples:

Quiz – What is Cultural Diversity? : Portfolio #2

Quiz – What is Cultural Diversity?

Read the UNESCO report. True or False? If FALSE, write the TRUE answer.

1.       At least 6000 different languages exist in the world.	True
2.       Over 200 million people live outside the country where they were born.	False, a=around 175 million
3.       One aspect of Human Rights is respecting different cultures.	True
4.       Cultural Diversity means a lack of respect for freedom of thought.	False, it means a fundamental right
5.       Cultural Diversity can make a society stronger.	True

Vocabulary practice. Define in your own words:

1.       Heterogeneous : Variety, diversity.

2.       Plurality : Majority.

3.       Migration : Moving from one country to another.

4.       Fundamental : Bases.

5.       Collective strength : Group strength.

Now read the rest of the article, and answer these questions by researching on the internet.

1.       The article mentions food as an example of Cultural Diversity. Can you think of something else which could add interest and richness in a culturally diverse country?

Media

Military

2.       Name three ways in which people of different cultures can help a country to function in the new global economy.

Trading

Languages

Skills and knowledge

3.       From the internet, in relation to Cultural Diversity, find a picture and a definition of “Melting pot” and “Garden salad”.

Melting pot: Different people from different countries get together in one country and become one culture.

Garden salad: Different cultures mixed together, but you can see the difference.

4.       Britain today is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. Look on the internet and find out which nationalities make up the “ethnic minority population of over 4 million”.

South Asian: 2 million.

Black people: 1.15 million

5.       Australia is another of the most culturally diverse countries in the world.  The University of Melbourne has a policy on Cultural Diversity. Read the two paragraphs and summarize them in your own words.

The university of Melbourne insures that there students and staff achieve more about their culture and greater understanding of their culture.

Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:

Varied	Homogeneous	Increasingly	Decreasingly	Respecting	Disrespecting
Strength	Weakness	Improving	Declining	Inclusive	Narrow
Majority	Minority	Tolerance	Intolerance	Equality	Inequality

Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:

Diverse	Varied	Creative	Inspired	Uniqueness	Exclusivity
Dignity	Pride	Integrated	Joined	Asset	Ability
Global	International	Benefit	Advantage	Harmony	Agreement

UAE Demographics: Portfolio #1

Introduction to Diversity

With a partner, research on the internet to find the following information include your sources.

UAE Demographics:

Ethnic Groups	Percentage	Year	Source
Emiraties	19%	1982	https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ae.html
Arabs and Iranians	23%	1982	https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ae.html
South Asians	50%	1982	https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ae.html
Westerns and South Asians	8%	1982	https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ae.html

Religions	Percentage	Year	Source
Muslims ( Suni )	96%	1982	https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ae.html
Muslims ( Shia )	16%	1982	https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ae.html
Christians	4%	1982	https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ae.html

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

          Culture diversity is basin on the culture identity which shouldn't be forgotten but rather be preserved and valued.

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

           An islands such as Sir Bani Yas, and an organization that helps children learn about our culture such as Emirates Heritage Club.