Blog Exercise #1 - Ten Aspects of Cultural Diversity

Blog Exercise #1 - Ten Aspects of Cultural Diversity

Name Ateeq Al Hameli …………………….
ID: H00247358

  

1.   Look at these ten aspects which make up your cultural identity. Then, fill in the last two columns – one for somebody who works for your family and one for an expatriate friend. There are other aspects of cultural diversity but these are the main ones.

Aspect	‘ism’	Frankie	Mohamed	Your Family Employee	Your Expatriate Friend
Race/Ethnicity	Racism (Racist)	White British	Emirati	India	Australian
Language		English	Arabic	English	English
Religion	Religious bigotry (a religious bigot)	Christian (Protestant)	Muslim (Sunni)	Muslim (Sunni)	Muslim (Sunni)
Values and beliefs		Socialist	Carnivore	Carnivore	Socialist
Disability	Ableism	Able	Able	Able	Able
Class	Classism	Middle Class	High Class!	High Class	High Class
Gender	Sexism (Sexist)	Female	Male	Male	Male
Age	Ageism (Ageist)	60	20	25	25
Educational Background		M.Ed.	Undergraduate	Undergraduate	MS
Sexual Orientation	Hetrosexualist (Homophobic)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

2. How many countries are there in the world today?  200 +

3. How many ethnic groups are there in the world today? Hundreds of Thousands

Here is an incomplete list of ethnic groups. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_ethnic_groups

4. How many ethnic groups are there living in the UAE? 5

5. What is wrong with this chart?  The percentage of Emarati citizens

6. What percentage of the UAE population is Emirati in 2014? 11.5%

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/influx-of-foreigners-spikes-uae-population-to-8-3m-1.787518

7. Why is the percentage so small? because the number of foreigners are increases wich makes the number of Emarati citizens population decrease 

8. The UAE's population strategy plans to make Emiratis the majority in the country or up to 50 per cent, by 2020 members of the Federal National Council (FNC) told Gulf News.

9. Do you think this will happen? Actually, I think it is impossible 

10. Why do you think this? Because there's gonna be more construction in The UAE for the Expo 2020 which needs more workers and thats gonna increase the percentage or foreigners and decrease the percentage of Emarati citizens 

11. Do you have any different ethnic groups in your ancestry or your family today?  No 

12. What are the benefits of having a mixed cultural heritage? The benefits is that we will start sharing thoughts and beliefs and that will develop our thoughts and will make us have a better look for the future