Personal Reflection #2

            In all over world there are many teenager or child’s need some help in their life and to be one of the normal people. We have visit the Future Center facility in Abu Dhabi and we saw a lot of thing interesting and I will talk about it now.

The Future Center Facility is a place to help the patients who they can’t study in the regular student in the schools and help them to learn from the child until they grow up or until he or she know how to work in anything like a normal people and help them in many ways. There are many sections such as teaching classes, skills. The staffs are from all over countries and they are very helpful and care with the patients who need special needs. The number of the students or patients about 109 and the staffs 90 it is mean that every student have his own one or two teacher. I saw also when they want to play they can play basketball and football and they can also dance on music to be more happy also they have library to read books and mini store to know how to buy from the supermarket. The staff at first faced many problems like their first center was on a rented villa which was difficult for them to offer everything for their students also, the participants which communicates with other students and offering them what they need. They have graduated many students and moved to normal schools also, they have join too many competitions in sports and education and sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al-Nahyan help them and give them more equipment and teachers also, There goals are to let the people of UAE know about their center and to let them trust them with their children to help them grow and learn.

            Overall, I thank my god that I can do everything and I woke up and I'm fine also, Cultural diversity showed us that people can achieve high or great things in life and if they are special needs they show us that they can make a lot of thing and they will be important someday.

  

Portfolio #2

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 outside.
3.       One aspect of Human Rights is respecting different cultures.	True
4.       Cultural Diversity means a lack of respect for freedom of thought.	False, cultural diversity means to more respect.
5.       Cultural Diversity can make a society stronger.	True

Vocabulary practice. Define in your own words:

1.       Heterogeneous === Divers

2.       Plurality === Many

3.       Migration === Moving around

4.       Fundamental === Basic

5.       Collective strength === Strength in groups

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?

·         Music.

·         Games.

·         Dance.

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

·         Trade.

·         Languages skill.

·         Different approaches.

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

·       Melting pot: Different cultural but, together in one place.

·       Garden salad: different cultural mixed together.

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”.

·       Indian

·       Pakstanian

·       Arab

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.

Support the Cultural Diversity from everywhere and trying to create an environment that could own them.

Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:

Varied	one	Increasingly	Decreasingly	Respecting	Disrespect
Strength	Weakness	Improving	Down grading	Inclusive	Exclusive
Majority	Minority	Tolerance	Intolerance	Equality	difference

Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:

Diverse	Variety	Creative	imaginative	Uniqueness	Exceptionality
Dignity	honor	Integrated	Included	Asset	Benefit
Global	World wide	Benefit	profit	Harmony	Agreement

Portfolio #1

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Introduction to Diversity

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

UAE Demographics:

Ethnic Groups	Percentage	Year	Source
Emiratis	20%	2010	Wikipedia
South Asians	50%	2010	Wikipedia
Westerns	8%	2010	Wikipedia
Arabs	23%	2010	Wikipedia

Religions	Percentage	Year	Source
Muslim	80%	2003	Wikipedia
Christian	9%	2003	Wikipedia
Buddhist	10%	2003	Wikipedia

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

Cultural diversity is being respectful to other cultures besides your own.

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

In our country there’s a lot of cultural diversity and the main thing about this that we have church and mosque near each other that mean we live safely and we don’t harming the other religions also, all other religions has an own area to do whatever they want.

Personal Reflection #1

                In every country in the world there is their own culture and religion. In this essay I will talk about how to be Emirati or how u knows the Emirati I will put some of information that will help us and I will talk about it.

First of all, all the Emirati are the same but some time the different only in accent and skin, all the Emirati have a same religion they are Muslim and Sunni but, not all the Emirati come from the some country all different family came from other area they have a different accent but, they has the some traditions. The hobbies that they will make you to know that the one is Emirati is riding camels and hunt by falcon most of them had this hobbies. Also, most of families gathering in El eid because this is a tradition in the Emirati family.

Overall, all the Emirati is the same but the different in accent and the area where they came and, I hope to know the Emirati in other ways and good ways.