Reflective Essay 3

Reflective Essay 3

Stereotyping, Prejudice and Discrimination

In our life we faced a lot of problems and challenges that make us think for a while about how we can skip of this issue and get the experience of how to deal with these problems that we see it in life. And when the world is getting bigger and huge we can see the differences between people and their culture and we don’t know about them a lot and that causes problems. The problems that we face know in our world is stereotype, prejudice and discrimination and we are going to explain them each one in this essay.

Firstly, the definition of stereotype is a judgment that comes from the image of the people and trying to destroy it. We can find the stereotype in the mass media and the effect of the stereotype is huge because it gives the incomplete image of group of people or group of nation. And the example of stereotype is when we say “All people who has long beard are dangerous and terrorists.

Secondly, prejudices in the past are the prejudgment of the people based on the ethnic. But this term has been change now and it becomes more than just ethnic and inserts all the prejudgment that based on fear and ignoring. One of the examples is when people of one nation said something based on hate of another nation because of wars between these two nations.

Thirdly, discrimination is the behavior or action and the treatment of people that based on age, color of the skin, sex, and religion. Discrimination has a positive side but the negative side is the most and the huge that people when they read about discrimination they think about the negative side. Well as we can see that discrimination is based on stereotype and prejudice, because if we fundamentally goes through this word we can find that every discrimination has a stereotype of generalize and the prejudice of the pre judgment on people.

In conclusion, I think that we can find the solution of stereotype; prejudice and discrimination by understand each other and make our own judge based on how we know people and stop listen to the mass media.

Power Point about ISMS

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.

People watching

People watching

Place: Marina Mall

Date: 17^th September.2012

 Time : 7:00 pm

I went to Marina Mall with my friends to work on my homework about the cultural diversity in my country and around me. And this homework called people watching.

So we I went to Marina Mall I sat in Café La Roma with my friends and I saw a huge cultural diversity at this place. I saw People form everywhere sitting in groups and talking and having a good time.

 The idea that I got from the people that they are coming from a big day in their work place and they took the rest of the day to have a good time and relax.

The cultural diversity that I saw is in nationalities and Languages and certainly in religion.

I took a few pictures from the café:

And to explain the cultural diversity in the café I will use this chart.

What are the Challenges and Benefits of Cultural Diversity?

What are the Challenges and Benefits of Cultural Diversity?

In our years, we saw people came to our country from other countries to work and improve their economy status or to share the experience with us. Also when they came to our country, some of them still have a loyalty to their culture so its control their life and some of them tried to share it with the people in the host country. And that’s what we called Cultural Diversity.

As everything in the life has two sides positive and negative, so the cultural diversity has benefits and challenges.

Firstly, benefits of cultural diversity based on 4 points.

1 – Sharing the experience: and it means that people when they come from their country they come with different skills and experience that surely will improve the skills of the people in the host country.

2 – Making new relationships: one of the greatest benefits of the cultural diversity is that gives new relationships and meeting new people with different ideas.

3 – New ways of lifestyle: also cultural diversity ensures the new lifestyle that came with the people from outside.

4 – Learning new languages: cultural diversity also let the people learning languages of other nations.

Secondly, challenges of cultural diversity based on 3 points.

1 – Racism: the biggest challenge of cultural diversity is racism, because some of nations can`t acceptance intellectually people from outside the country.

2 – Disease: some of the people when they came to the host country have some disease that did not knows about them and it can be dangerous.

3 – Bad habits: like drinking, drags and some strange cloths.

In conclusion, I think that benefits of cultural diversity is the most and we should improve it in the community by finding the solution and treatment of the challenges of the cultural diversity and give people more ideas about it