Portfolio Exercise #1

Blog Exercise #1 - Ten Aspects of Cultural Diversity

Name: Mohamed Ali Alawadi 

ID: H00269495    

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	Iraqi
Language		English	Arabic	Ethiopian	Arabic
Religion	Religious bigotry (a religious bigot)	Christian (Protestant)	Muslim (Sunni)	Muslim ( Sunni )	Muslim ( Sunni )
Values and beliefs		Socialist	Carnivore	Carnivore	Socialist
Disability	Ableism	Able	Able	Able	Able
Class	Classism	Middle Class	High Class!	High Class	High Class
Gender	Sexism (Sexist)	Female	Male	Female	Male
Age	Ageism (Ageist)	60	20	29	26
Educational Background		M.Ed.	Undergraduate	undergraduate	Undergraduate
Sexual Orientation	Hetrosexualist (Homophobic)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

2. How many countries are there in the world today?  204

3. How many ethnic groups are there in the world today? There are more than 5,000

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 between 5-6 

5. What is wrong with this chart?  Its Out dated 

6. What percentage of the UAE population is Emirati in 2014?  2.33 million⁷

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 more foreign people coming in 

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 I think it will happen 

10. Why do you think this? Because the country have made plans for it and its already in process 

11. Do you have any different ethnic groups in your ancestry or your family today?  Yes I do 

12. What are the benefits of having a mixed cultural heritage? The Benefits of it is that I can learn from it 

Post this on your blog by the end of the class.