Blog Exercise #1 - Ten Aspects of Cultural Diversity

Name :Ahmed fadhel salem naser Alateeqi

ID :H00281127

1. Look at these ten aspects which make up your cultural identity. Then, fill in the last two columns – one for somebody who works for your family and one for an expatriate friend. There are other aspects of cultural diversity but these are the main ones.

Aspect	‘ism’	Frankie	Mohamed	Your Family Employee	Your Expatriate Friend
Race/Ethnicity	Racism (Racist)	White British	Emirati	india	Emirati
Language		English	Arabic	indian	Arabic
Religion	Religious bigotry (a religious bigot)	Christian (Protestant)	Muslim (Sunni)	muslim (sunni)	muslim (sunni)
Values and beliefs		Socialist	Carnivore	carnivore	carnivore
Disability	Ableism	Able	Able	Able	Able
Class	Classism	Middle Class	High Class!	low class	High class
Gender	Sexism (Sexist)	Female	Male	male	male
Age	Ageism (Ageist)	60	20	30	21
Educational Background		M.Ed.	Undergraduate	high school	high school
Sexual Orientation	Hetrosexualist (Homophobic)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

2. How many countries are there in the world today? 196

3. How many ethnic groups are there in the world today? over 4000

Here is an incomplete list of ethnic groups. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_ethnic_groups

4. How many ethnic groups are there living in the UAE? Four

　

　

　

5. What is wrong with this chart? the number which was given for the average of the emarati people was wrong and unspecific

6. What percentage of the UAE population is Emirati in 2014? 11.5%

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/influx-of-foreigners-spikes-uae-population-to-8-3m-1.787518

7. Why is the percentage so small? because there are alot of forigners employees come to UAE to work

8. The UAE's population strategy plans to make Emiratis the majority in the country or up to 40 per cent, by 2020, members of the Federal National Council (FNC) told Gulf News.

9. Do you think this will happen? no it would be impossible

10. Why do you think this? uae would need a large numbers of workers and employees for the coming projects

11. Do you have any different ethnic groups in your ancestry or your family today? no

12. What are the benefits of having a mixed cultural heritage?

sharing experinces and veriety of lanuages