Personal Reflection #2

Future Centre Life
 

The Future center is a non-profit organization. It’s a place that it been opened for individual people with different disabilities. The facilities they ben faced a lot of challenges with them until they handle now. The center have a lot of deferent disabled kids and these children need lots of care and people around them to teach them and to help them so by time they could join any of regular schools by time. Otherwise those kids could join any of sports and Olympics for special needs. Their goals are to make the number of students with disabilities and the place bigger with deferent activities to give the kids a better life. Although the center is working on becoming the leading with best they can in practices. So the children with special needs when they joined the Olympics some of them they could be good with sports like Archery, shooting, wheelchair basketball, etc. Finally the future center they have achieved teams of specialists and student as the internet site. For example one of my relatives he is an Autism and before he joined the Centre he had lots of problems like of how the family they could give him a lot of opportunities. But when they heard of the future Centre they signed him up and a lot of things changed in his life and he became better and his life became better with the opportunities he is having and classes he take like drawing and sports swimming classes.

portfolio assignment #1 - cultural diversity

Quiz – What is Cultural Diversity?

 

Read the UNESCO report. True or False? If FALSE, write the TRUE answer.

1.At least 6000 different languages exist in the world.	True.
2.Over 200 million people live outside the country where they were born.	False. / Around 175 million people live away from their country
3.One aspect of Human Rights is respecting different cultures.	True.
4.Cultural Diversity means a lack of respect for freedom of thought.	False. / It means respecting the freedom of thought.
5.Cultural Diversity can make a society stronger.	True.

 

Vocabulary practice. Define in your own words:

1. Heterogeneous: Mixed.

2. Plurality: majority.

3. Migration: The action of moving from one country to another.

4. Fundamental: Basic.

5. Collective strength: strength in numbers.

Now read the rest of the article, and answer these questions by researching on the internet.

1. The article mentions food as an example of Cultural Diversity. Can you think of something else which could add interest and richness in a culturally diverse country?

A- Sports.

B- Languages.

C- Schools.

D- Places of warship.

 

2. Name three ways in which people of different cultures can help a country to function in the new global economy.

·         Communicating in different languages.

·         Different and unique solving problems.

·         Trading.

 

3. From the internet, in relation to Cultural Diversity, find a picture and a definition of “Melting pot” and “Garden salad”.

 

·         Melting pot is a metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements "melting together" into a harmonious whole with a common culture.

·         Garden salad it means that the integration of the many different cultures are combined/mixed like a salad.

 

 

 

 

4. Britain today is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. Look on the internet and find out which nationalities make up the “ethnic minority population of over 4 million”.

 

             1- White (other) - 3,096,169

             2- Indians – 1,053,411

5. Australia is another of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. The University of Melbourne has a policy on Cultural Diversity. Read the two paragraphs and summarize them in your own words.

 

·         Melbourne's university states that in order to rise above & create social harmony, they must maintain, value, respect, and support the cultural diversities by creating an environment where students & staff can exchange different traditions & cultures.

 

Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:

Varied	Homogenous (unvaried)	Increasingly	Decreasingly	Respecting	Disrespecting
Strength	Weakness	Improving	Declining	Inclusive	Exclusive
Majority	Minority	Tolerance	Intolerance	Equality	Inequality

 

Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:

Diverse	Varied	Creative	Original	Uniqueness	Singularity / Oneness
Dignity	Self-esteem Self-respect	Integrated	Combined	Asset	Advantage / Benefit / Positive feature
Global	International / Universal	Benefit	Advantage / Asset	Harmony	Unity / Agreement

 

 

Portfolio Exercise #1-Introduction to Diversity

Introduction to Diversity - Portfolio exercise #1

With a partner, research on the internet to find the following information include your sources.

UAE Demographics:

Ethnic Groups	Percentage	Year	Source
Emirati	19%	2012	www.indexmundi.com
South Asians	50%	2012	www.indexmundi.com
East Asians & westerners	8%	2012	www.indexmundi.com
Other Arabs & Iranians	30-40%	2012	www.indexmundi.com

 

Religions	Percentage	Year	Source
Islam	57%	2010	www.looklex.com
Hinduism	15%	2010	www.looklex.com
christianity	9%	2010	www.looklex.com
Buddism	5%	2010	www.looklex.com
Other	4%	2010	www.looklex.com

 

1.Write a definition of cultural diversity in your own words.

( is a multicalturalism that is based on the idea of maintaining the different cultures and value them instead of ignoring their presence )

2.Give examples of cultural diversity in Abu Dhabi (Places of worship, organizations, etc.)

1-Shaik Zayed Mosque.

2-Arabs Evangelical Church.

3-Erangelical community church.

4-St.Andrew Church (Anglican).

5-St.George orthodox church.

5-St.Joseph roman catholic church