10 Aspects of Cultural Diversity

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 different from you?

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

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

Answer: 

I live in Abu Dhabi but I was born in Sharja 1994. My name is Abdalla AlMewali and I’m 19 years old. I studied Business for one year in HCT Abu Dhabi Men’s Collage, but now I switched to media major. I speak Arabic and English and my religion is Islam.

 

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	Greek-American, Scottish-Canadian, African-American	My colleague is Yemeni-Emirati
3. Language	Arabic, English, Italian	Elman speaks Spanish
4. Value and belief systems	Psychic powers, alien abduction, homeopathy, Atheism	John Smith believes that psychic powers exist
5. Disability	Blind, Deaf, Schizophrenia	Adam suffers from bipolar disorder
6. Class	Working class, Middle class, Upper class	Rose is considered to be in working class
7. Gender	Male or Female	Ashley is a Female
8. Age	Childhood (1-12), teenage (13-19), adulthood	Walter White is 53 years old
9. Education background	High school graduate, Undergraduate, Doctorate degree	My Friend Kamal has a first-year undergraduate degree education background
10. Race	Caucasian, Black, Asian	Jessie Pinkman is Caucasian

*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/