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.

 

I was born in Abu Dhabi and my nationality is Emirati, im 35 years old married have 3 kids

im working in abu dhabi police .

 

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
3. Language
4. Value and belief systems
5. Disability
6. Class
7. Gender
8. Age
9. Education background
10. Race

 

*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/