Portfolio exercise #6

Adverse Reactions to Diversity –Portfolio exercise #6

Course:       Cultural Diversity                               Code:  LSSS N205

Name: Ahmed Abedraboh Abdullah                                             ID#: H00279947

With a partner, please answer the following. You may use internet resources to help you.

1.      Define:

a.       Stereotyping : judging a group of people from the characteristics of some.

b.      Prejudice : judging a group of people from the attitude or characteristics of the individual.

c.       Bias : the same as Prejudice.

d.      Discrimination : Treated one group Differently from the other one based on their appearance

2.      Give an example of each.

1 – a lot of People thinks that the Arabs are terrorists.

2 – Emirates people prefer to work on government jobs

3–  In USA black people Were treated badly that they were not allowed to go to some places. 

Watch  Class Divided

ü Understanding

With partners, answer the following:

1.      Where, when and with whom did this experiment take place?In a School , USA , Tuesday, wednessday, 3rd grade class.

2.      Describe the experiment.Separate the students by the color of their eye, and treat them differently.

3.      What were the results?the students start to say bad words to each other, a fight happened between one blue eye and another brown eye.

4.      How successful do you believe it was?
they learn that they shouldn't  judge people from their appearance. It was a very good experiment that these children still remember how does it feel to be discriminated against.  

Going Deeper 

In groups of four, discuss the following:

Ø  a time she or he experienced prejudice or discrimination.

when i was in middle school i used to be fat. and because of that no body was choosing me in the P.E period to play in their teams.

Ø  a time she or he discriminated against somebody else.

NO. I dont remember doing that to anybody.

Ø  a time she or he witnessed discrimination and did nothing about it. 

it happened between two of my friends and I didnt do any thing. I was afraid to lose one of them.

Ø  a time she or he witnessed discrimination and did something about it.  

some of my friend were saying bad thing about someone else because of his clothes.