Course Goal 1 Revision

LSS 2053 Course Goal 1 Revision

Answer the following revision questions in paragraphs of about 50 words each. In your answers you should use examples from your own experience where possible.

1.       Which types of Cultural Diversity exist at ADMC? Give an example from each of the ten categories in your table of ten. Say whether each one is a Challenge or a Benefit.

       As any college or university in the world, there`s huge cultural diversity in my college. For example, there`s a religion diversity in the college such as Islam, Christian and Hindu. And I can see this diversity in my teachers, at the library and at the rest area and I think it`s one of the benefits of cultural diversity. Also in the college there are many languages that I can hear around me. Of course my first language Arabic that I and my friends speaking, English is the most language that spoken in my college and a little Hindi. Sometimes the language is a big challenge because it`s hard to connect with other people that you don’t understand it.

Another cultural diversity in the ADMC is cloths. I can see this in the class, library and the rest area. Some of them wearing Kandora , and some of them T-shirt and jeans. It’s one of the benefits to know each culture and their cloths.

2.       Define and give an example of Acculturation.

  It`s to get information and ideas from other culture and try to applied it in our culture. One of the examples of Acculturation is food. Some of the cultures take some types of food from other countries. Like Arabs took spicy foods from India.    

3.       Explain how child-raising in different cultures can have an effect on personality.

     Well, if we accustomed the child on some behavior, he will take this behavior and will be a part of his personality that is under formation. For example as we know that Arabs and their environment are famous of angry and over reacting, so it`s easy to effect on the child and make them like the environment. And I can see this example in my family between my father and my brother.

  Explain the difference between a “melting pot” and a “garden salad” related to immigration to a country such as UK, USA, Australia for example

Melting pot is like have all the ethnic groups together under the umbrella of citizenship.

The best example of melting pot is in the 18^th century in the USA, they put every group that came from other country and forget everything from their old culture.

Garden salad is to separates every ethnic group with all their culture from the community and make for them towns.

And the best example of garden salad is China town in San Francisco.

5.       How can Multiculturalism have a positive effect on a large company?

It can be positive in large company on improve and get a high level in skills and experience. Because they come from their countries with large and new skills that can led to big jump and improvement in the place that will get it.

Also it can be positive in the work place, schools, universities and Places vital.

I can see the improvement in schools on students. They can learn new languages and new positive things like reading for example.