Monday, October 7, 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 reasons. It is similar to prejudice, e.g. racial prejudice in apartheid South Africa.


Culture shock: This is when u find aspects from another culture so defferent from ur own.


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


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


Ethnic group: It's a group which share 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 country; not a tourist, not a businessman in a short visit.

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Cultural Divirsty & Demographics of UAE

source
year
percentage
Ethnic groups
Wikipedia
2013
19%
Emirati
Wikipedia
2013
23%
 
Other Arabs and Iranian
Wikipedia
2013
50%
South Asian
Wikipedia
2013
8%
Other  expatriates

source
year
percentage
religions
Wikipedia
2013
76%
Muslim
Wikipedia
2013
16%
Shia
Wikipedia
2013
15%
Christian
Wikipedia
2013
%5
Hindu
Wikipedia
2013
5%
Buddhism


Cultural divirsty :   is a combination of  differences such as races, gender , economic ,  and religion with shared values of history of people.