Cultural Views

 

Cultural Views

 

Speaker	Quote	Meaning
Dwight Eisenhower	A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.	You judge a country with their advantages above their standard thing and it then both disappear
Martin Luther King Jr.	All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.	We should treat our selves brilliant because we are linked
Sheik Zayed	A nation without a past is a nation without a present or a future. Thanks to God, our nation has a flourishing civilisation, deep-rooted in this land for many centuries. These roots will always flourish and bloom in the glorious present of our nation and in its anticipated 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.	We have conflux between many things and we have to choose.
Mahatma Gandhi	A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and souls of its people.	The culture of the country depends on how people loves and treat people in the country
Niqab debate	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.	The traditional should be respected if it respets the rights of men and women.
ML King Jr.	I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.	God doesn’t care about skin color. God cares about freedom for everyone.
Albert Schweitzer	My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.	That mean I will treat you like a human if you did the same
Frank Borman	There's no question that it was a coffin, and I'd have flown it gladly	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?	One doesn’t  simply love his country but to love others too ( prevents ethnocentrism)
DD. Eisenhower		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?	Because most of western society suffered from war and stopped fighting, and in that period Arabs where split because of the European imperials
Martin Luther 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.	One must not judge a person by his skin but by him personality
Amin Maalouf	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.	When people and treated and looked at in a better way they will interact better with the rest of the people instead of imprisons themselves with the fear of social

Are Emiratis Ethnocentric

Are Emiratis Ethnocentric

I don’t think Emiratis are ethnocentric because as you can see every year the number of Emiratis that goes abroad for learning is increasing and that means that they love to live and learn from other country that have different language and traditions too. However in my opinion all Emiratis aren’t ethnocentric because as you can see most of the locals are friendly and like to know friends from other countries because they would like to know about different cultures. Although Emiratis are proud of their country that doesn’t mean that they are ethnocentric, therefor in my opinion Emiratis aren’t ethnocentric.

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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.	False
2.       Over 200 million people live outside the country where they were born.	False
3.       One aspect of Human Rights is respecting different cultures.	True
4.       Cultural Diversity means a lack of respect for freedom of thought.	True
5.       Cultural Diversity can make a society stronger.	True

Vocabulary practice. Define in your own words:

1.       Heterogeneous: Different  in kind.

2.       Plurality: More than one.

3.       Migration: Move from one place to another as group for food, habitat, etc.

4.       Fundamental: The foundation or basic.

5.       Collective strength: To join together to be more powerful.

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?

 The emirates people are eating rice which grows in Pakistan

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

1.    Trading with people from different cultures brings variety of goods.

2.    Bring in foreign workers to teach the country men the trade.

3.    Different natives to join into a single project gets variety of result

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

Melting Pot: Immigrants came to America starting in the 1400s and the largest influx of them came during the 1800s and 1900s. They began to blend together, hence the name the melting pot idea.

WE DIDN’T FIND ANY THING ON GARDEN SALAD.

4.      

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”.

The other type of white people (other than UK citizens) are consist of 3,096,169 in 2001

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.

 The university cultural diversity based on age, rave, believe, region, etc., and give both the student and the staff the feedom to keep their own cultural opinion also learns from other cultural.

Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:

Varied	homogeneous	Increasingly	Un happy	Respecting	contempt
Strength	weak	Improving	worsening	Inclusive	narrow
Majority	Minority	Tolerance	intolerance	Equality	inequality

Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:

Diverse	different	Creative	discover	Uniqueness	individuality
Dignity	pride	Integrated	combined	Asset	advantage
Global	Universal	Benefit	profit	Harmony	agreement