Course:
Cultural
Diversity
Code: LSSS N205
Name: Khalifa
Yousuf AlHammadi. ID# H00269441
With a partner, please answer the following. You may use
internet resources to help you.
1. Define:
a. Stereotyping: is a thought that may be
adopted about specific types of individuals or certain ways of doing things,
but that belief may or may not accurately reflect reality.
b. Prejudice: is most often used to
refer to preconceived, usually unfavorable, judgments toward people or a person
because of gender, social class, age, disability, religion, sexuality,
race/ethnicity, language, nationality or other personal characteristics.
c. Bias: is an inclination to
present or hold a partial perspective at the expense of (possibly equally
valid) alternatives.
d. Discrimination: is the prejudicial or
distinguishing treatment of an individual based on his or her membership - or
perceived membership - in a certain group or category.
2. Give an example of each.
A. Stereotyping: Emiratis are friendlies.
B. Prejudice: teenagers are so angry, so they are not allowed to drive.
C. Bias: some of emirate companies bias to not local workers.
D. Discrimination: in the past there was discrimination between white and black skin people.
Watch Class Divided
ü Understanding
With
partners, answer the following:
1. Where,
when and with whom did this experiment take place?
Midwest USA, 1968, ellenoy.
2. Describe
the experiment.
It’s to teach them what to make fun of other
people by their outside look.
3. What
were the results?
Very successful.
4. How
successful do you believe it was?
The children learned how to act and communicate with other
people who are they from get some difference between them.
Going Deeper - Extra
In groups of four, discuss the following:
Ø a time she or he experienced
prejudice or discrimination
Ø a time she or he discriminated
against somebody else
Ø a time she or he
witnessed discrimination and did nothing about it
Ø a time she or he
witnessed discrimination and did something about it
