Blog Exercise # 1

Blog Exercise #1 - Ten Aspects of Cultural Diversity

Name: Hasan Al Hammadi

ID: H00280520                 

CEB

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’	john	Mohamed	Your Family Employee	Your Expatriate Friend
Race/Ethnicity	Racism (Racist)	White British	Emirati	Indian	Lebanese
Language		English	Arabic	Hindi	Arabic
Religion	Religious bigotry (a religious bigot)	Christian	Muslim	Muslim	Muslim
Values and beliefs		Socialist	Carnivore	omnivore	vegetarian
Disability	Able ism	Able	Able	able	able
Class	Class ism	High Class!	High Class!	low class	middle class
Gender	Sexism (Sexist)	Male	Male	male	female
Age	Ageism (Ageist)	40	30	35	24
Educational Background		M.Ed.	Undergraduate	uneducated	undergraduate
Sexual Orientation	Heterosexuality (Homophobic)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

2. How many countries are there in the world today?   210 countries

3. How many ethnic groups are there in the world today?   + 5000

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?    4 to 5

5. What is wrong with this chart?  

6. What percentage of the UAE population is Emirati in 2014? 11.6 %

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 more forgin worker coming

8. The UAE's population strategy plans to make Emiratis the majority in the country or up to 40 per cent, by 2021, members of the Federal National Council (FNC) told Gulf News.

9. Do you think this will happen?  Yes

10. Why do you think this?    Because each establishment in UAE want resident people

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?  Knowing new cultural and People will be more open minded and in some cases multilingual.