Blog Exercise #1 - Ten Aspects of Cultural Diversity

Blog Exercise #1 - Ten Aspects of Cultural Diversity

Name : Mohamed Masoud

ID : H00269306    

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	indian and indnosian	Iranian
Language		English	Arabic	Indian and Arabic	Arabic
Religion	Religious bigotry (a religious bigot)	Christian (Protestant)	Muslim (Sunni)	Muslim	Muslim
Values and beliefs		Socialist	Carnivore	Socialist	Carnivore
Disability	Ableism	Able	Able	Ableism	Able
Class	Classism	Middle Class	High Class!	low class	Middle class
Gender	Sexism (Sexist)	Female	Male	Female	Male
Age	Ageism (Ageist)	60	20	27	36
Educational Background		M.Ed.	Undergraduate	unlettered	Graduate
Sexual Orientation	Hetrosexualist (Homophobic)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

2. How many countries are there in the world today?  196

3. How many ethnic groups are there in the world today? 4000 or more

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? 4

5. What is wrong with this chart?  The percentage of Emirati is so small

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? There are many workers come to UAE 

8. The UAE's population strategy plans to make Emiratis the majority in the country or up to 40. per cent, by 2020, members of the Federal National Council (FNC) told Gulf News. 

9. Do you think this will happen? no, its impossible 

10. Why do you think this? UAE needs more workers for the new project 

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? having more idea and knowledge.