Saturday, 26 October 2013

Portfolio Exercise #6


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

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