About the vedio

I learned from the video which we did two weeks ago many things that improved me and improve my information’s about my country. I learned how to work in groups and how to act with the group members and also how to divide the project work equally and this thing makes our film looks good because all of the group members shared the ideas of each other  and we finished our work on time and there no any adopt about the video. However, I learned from this video about my culture and also how the people look to our culture and the people who live in this country. I learned the several types of old boat which was our parents using them in transporting before and it is called shahoof, bateel and mhmal, and also how the transporting changes from the past to these days. And also I learned how the UAE changed in 40 years from a desert to a heaven.

UAE Culture Diversity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHto_EIx1mU

Glossary

Tuesday, 1 October 2013

Glossary

Culture: the shared values, history, customs etc of a people.

Diversity: differences e.g. race, gender, economic status, religion etc.

Cultural diversity: a multicultural society where it is understood that each individual is different re. race, gender, economic status, religion, physical abilities etc. When this occurs we have social harmony i.e. peaceful co-existence of people from different backgrounds. In such a society there will be cross-cultural communication, where people from differing backgrounds can communicate and avoid conflicts and can even adopt aspects of other cultures i.e. acculturation. In this type of society there will be a widely-shared belief in human rights, basic freedoms which belong to all people regardless of colour, language, religion etc.

Bias: If you are biased it means you have an idea that someone or something is superior to another for no logical reason. It is similar to prejudice, e.g. racial prejudice in apartheid South Africa.

Culture shock: This is when you find aspects of another culture so different from your own.

Demographics: The study of the population and its component parts.

Discrimination: There was racial discrimination in apartheid South Africa. N.B. blue eyes v brown eyes.

Ethnic group: It's a group which shares similar race, religion, language, whatever.

Ethnocentricity: It's looking at the world from your own ethnic point of view; it implies that your ethnicity is superior.

Expatriate: Someone from one country living and often working in another; not a tourist, not a businessman on a short visit.