CGE 2053 Saeed Mohammed Ali - H000247622

Blog Exercise #1 - Ten Aspects of Cultural Diversity

Name: Saeed Mohammed Ali

ID: H00247622

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’	Frankie	Mohamed	Your Family Employee	Your Expatriate Friend
Race/Ethnicity	Racism (Racist)	White British	Emirati	Ethiopian	Japanese
Language		English	Arabic	Ethiopian Semitic	Japanese
Religion	Religious bigotry (a religious bigot)	Christian (Protestant)	Muslim (Sunni)	Muslim (Sunni)	Christian (Protestant)
Values and beliefs		Socialist	Carnivore	illiterate	Cultured
Disability	Ableism	Able	Able	Able	Able
Class	Classism	Middle Class	High Class!	Low Class	High Class!
Gender	Sexism (Sexist)	Female	Male	Female	Male
Age	Ageism (Ageist)	60	20	19	24
Educational Background		M.Ed.	Undergraduate	illiterate	bachelor
Sexual Orientation	Hetrosexualist (Homophobic)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

 

2. How many countries are there in the world today?  There Are 196 Countries in the World

 3. How many ethnic groups are there in the world today? There are about 27,000 ethnic groups in the world

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? There are four ethnic groups, Emirati 19%, other Arab and Iranian 23%, South Asian 50%, other expatriates (includes Westerners and East Asians) 8%

5. What is wrong with this chart?  The wrong thing in this chart is that UAE Emirati citizens have the lowest percentage of the total percentage of the Ethnic groups, Although its Emirati country. Also the wrong fact is that the South and South-East Asian Scored more than half the total percentage.

6. What percentage of the UAE population is Emirati in 2014?  the percentage of Emiratis has dwindled to just 11.5 per cent from approximately 15.4 per cent in 2006.

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 very huge number of the foreigners and this number are increasing. While the citizen number are little and its increasing slowly

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 the UAE are developing day by day, its changing in much better way so that the citizen will live in a comfortable environment, considering all aspects such as, the health care, the accommodation, education and the working places.

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? To share the beliefs and thoughts and to understand and respect the other’s cultures. Also its good to have a knowledge of other religions and languages.