Drawing of Ethnocentrioc

Are Emiratis Ethnocentric?

In my opinion as an Emirati, I think we see the world as they are. We respect all country. And we deal with them as they deal with us. So if they had good deal with us they will see more from us. It depends how they work with us.so we don’t discriminate people. We also don’t look to their religious or their culture. And this is what makes a lot of people come to our country.  

The Quotations Quiz

Quotations Quiz

Name: Hashim Alhammadi                                                                                      Name:  Abdulla Alhosani

 

Cultural Views

 

Speaker	Quote	Meaning
Dwight D.Elsenhower	A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.	If society feels that are entitled to things instead of working for them that they will lose sight that they need to work support the system that provides them with these privileges
ML King Jr.	All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.	He’s describing life as a network which is connected all together which makes everyone involved in it by force, even if each person pretend to be living an individual life by himself he is still at the end of the day is a part of this big network which is our world
Sheik Zayed	A country without a past, has no future.	Any country that doesn’t value its past, can’t appreciate its present or future. This country, thanks to God, has a rich past, does well for now and its expected future.
Amin maalouf	Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them with difficult choices.	Having strong believes of an opinion, group, thought or a rule puts you sometimes in a difficult situation where you have to fight for this specific believe with those who’s against it who also have different believes
Ghandi	A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and souls of its people.	All the outside parts our culture comes from what we value inside.
Amin malouf	Traditions deserve to be respected only insofar as they are respectable – that is, exactly insofar as they themselves respect the fundamental rights of men and women.	A respectful tradition comes from the people. If each gender will respect the boundaries and admit the rights of each and the other the outcome will be a respectful life.
ML King Jr.	I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land	God doesn’t care about skin color. God cares about freedom for everyone.
Desmond Tutu	My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.	All of us are seeking for the same love and peaceful life and it only can spread by sharing it with each other and that what makes us human
Frank Borman	rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.	Looking at the earth from space, one wonders why we can’t get along decently.
Pablo Casals	The love of one’s country is a splendid thing, but why should it stop at the border?	Extend your love to the horizon and don’t make it stop where you think it should, a person can never love enough or get enough love. Spread the love starting by yourself, your family, your country, other people, other traditions other countries till the end of the world.
DD. Eisenhower	A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.	If people of the world can’t get along, nothing will work.
Sheik Zayed	Many countries go to war and then towards reconciliation. The history of mankind is full of stories of wars between people and states that have come together after fighting for long. Why can't Arabs be like them?	Arab countries go to war and the problem with each other remains for long time and same time it doesn’t finish.
ML King Jr.	I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.	People in future will not be Judged by their skin color, they will be judged by their behaviors.
Amine malouf	For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.	A person can affect another by just the way they look at them, which means if I treat you good you will give well. If I put you down that’s the way you’ll value yourself.

 

 

people with disabilities

In every society, there is a special type of people that they need to adapt to the environment in which they live as a result of health status in which there is something wrong. This adaption should not come from people with disabilities, it should come from other people who live around them, and they should deal with them as they deal other people. So these people well feel comfortable and try to do their best. so they can become teachers or scientists or what do they hope.

A Class Divided

1. Where, when and with whom did this experiment take place?

USA, with Ms. Jane Elliott's, in 1970.

2. Why is the year 1968 important in the history of Civil Rights/Racial Discrimination?

It was the year when the black people got their freedom after all the revolutions.

2. Describe the experiment.

Ms. Jane chose the brother hood week to apply her Class Divided experiment on her students, which was dividing the, into two groups based on the color of their eyes. At the first day blue eye people are the better and smarter people who get so many advantages and special treatment for being blue eye people. While brown eye people are the low class ones who are slow and don’t get any benefits and the rest treat them badly. A lot of interesting action happens during the break time. At the second day the teacher swap the standers, so the brown eye people get to be the better ones, so they get all excited and of course the blue eye people get shocked and depressed because from the day before they already know how they will be treated. During the two days you can see how the experiment affects the students in so many ways, the way they act, their studies and the way the treat each other. How when they’re the special ones they start showing off, act more confident and be rude to the low class ones.

3. Choose a child … What did he/she say on Day 1 and Day 2? And act?

Russell, I noticed Russell because once he was classified as the better ones at day one he already was mean to one of the boys during the break and start calling him names. He admits he did it in purpose to tease him in a mean way. And in the second day Russell came to school without his glasses, because he was so proud that he’s a blue eye and wanted to show off just like any macho man show off his muscles

5. Give some examples of the ‘rules’.

The blue eye people get to stay 5 extra minutes of break, brown eye people have to stay in, brown eye people don’t get to play with blue eye people, brown eye people get to wear collars to differentiate between them and blue eyes people, brown eye people have to use the paper cup to drink water unlike the blue eye people.

6. What were the results?

Finally the kids get to understand by going through all this that they shouldn’t discriminate people who have different features than them, skin color, religion or accent. They understood how hard and difficult it is to be judge and they promised their teacher to treat everyone equally just the way they would like to be treated.

7. Your observations

Watching the students faces while the teacher differentiate between them was very interesting, they couldn’t hide it or act that they’re fine with it. In such an age you can only get the truth and honest opinion on how would a person feel if he will be judged by others. This makes this experiment more interesting. While if we tried it in older people, some will be honest some will be in denial and at the end we wouldn’t come out with the same amazing results and conclusion.

 

Ethnocentric Cartoon Task

Ethnocentrism

 

 

 

1- Ethnocentrism is the belief in the superiority of one’s personal ethnic group, but it can be also develop from radial or religious differences.

2- By Bucky’s aggressive opinion about his friends being interested in knowing about others cultures. While Tom was trying to explain why different cultures other than their own is interesting by giving an example how one world is holding all these different races, traditions, religions and cultures in one place. Bucky refuse to even listen and end the conversation by calling everyone a freak until they act like him referring to his own culture.

3- Imagine them in social situations. What kind of people would (would not) they associate with? What kind of events (movies, shows) would (would not) they prefer to go? Think of other situations.

 

Describe Bucky

            Bucky is an ethnocentrism because he thinks only when the whole world will start behaving like him people will be better, by that he thinks he is better than the rest of them.

4- Tom is non- ethnocentrism unlike Bucky, tom thinks it’s interesting to know about others countries cultures and history without differentiating between his and their by thinking his culture is the best.

Quiz 2

 

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.	F
2. A “salad bowl” represents varied and separate cultures.	T
3. One aspect of Multiculturalism is respecting different cultures.	T
4. Cultural Diversity can be represented by a “melting pot”	F
5. Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	F

 

 

Define in your own words:

 

1. “Melting Pot”: people who come from outside should convert to the country’s religion.

 

2. “Salad Bowl”: The combination of the various cultures in the United States mixed like a salad.

 

3. “Assimilation”: People of different backgrounds come to see each other’s as a part of a larger national family.

 

4. “Acculturation”: the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture.

 

5. “Enculturation”: The gradual acquisition of the characteristics and norms of a culture or group.

 

Complete the sentence with words from the text:

 

Acculturation often results in changes to ________culture____________, ________customs_______________and ______social institutions_____________________________, as well as changes in food, _______clothing_____________ and __________languages________________________.

 

Give a synonym:

 

varied	different	respect	honor	dominate	control
multiple	compound	central	middle	interacting	reactive
specific	Exact	represents	means	adopt	espouse

 

 

Give the opposite:

 

varied	same	respect	disregard	gradually	hurriedly
multiple	single	common	unusual	dominant group	humble
specific	random	contrasted with	agree	adopt	refuse

 

 

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 humans.

 

2. Define “movement” in this context

People who move to another place for food.

 

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

Behavior.