Quotations Quiz

Quotations Quiz

 

Goal 3 Culture & Communication

 

Outcome 4

 

Name: Khalid Hasan                                                ID: s200305759

With a partner, research the internet to find the missing categories. Write the meaning of the quote in your own words from your own ideas:

 

Cultural Views

 

Speaker	Quote	Meaning
Dwight D. Eisenhower	A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.	A person who chooses to only benefit from privileges as soon he will lose his principles.
Martin Luther King Jr.	All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.	Every society is linked with other societies in the world like a network where we share a common destiny and it is so difficult for a society to be isolated from other societies.
Sheik Zayed	”He who does not know his past cannot make the best of his present and future, for it is from the past that we learn.”	Any country that doesn’t value its past, can’t appreciate its present or future. This country, thanks to God, has a rich past, does well for now and its expected future.
Amin Maalouf	Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them with difficult choices.	we should integrate our loyalties to avoid conflict
Mohandas Gandhi	A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and souls of its people.	It is so hard changing people culture.
Amin Maalouf	Traditions deserve to be respected only insofar as they are respectable – that is, exactly insofar as they themselves respect the fundamental rights of men and women.	The main point of respecting traditions is by giving fundamental rights for men and women equally
ML King Jr.	I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.	God doesn’t care about skin color. God cares about freedom for everyone.
Desmond Tutu	My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.	We should care for each other and cooperate together to live peacefully
Frank Borman	When you're finally up at the moon looking back on earth, all those differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend, and you're going to get a concept that maybe this really is one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people.	Looking at the earth from space, one wonders why we can’t get along decently.
Pablo Casals	The love of one’s country is a splendid thing, but why should it stop at the border?	We should love everything in the world everyone in the world every country in the world.
DD. Eisenhower	No people on the earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.	If people of the world can’t get along, nothing will work.
Sheikh Zayed	Many countries go to war and then towards reconciliation. The history of mankind is full of stories of wars between people and states that have come together after fighting for long. Why can't Arabs be like them?	The only way for end the war between people and states is reconciliation.
Martin Luther King Jr.	I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.	Never discriminate people by the color of their skin but by their moral behavior and character
Amin Maalouf	For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.	We should live together friendly and sharing love with each other. When we see bad action from somebody we should hate only the bad action not the person

 

Are Emiratis Ethnocentric?

Are Emiratis Ethnocentric?



Chinese: Bad products quality.

Indian: They have bad smell.

European: They are handsome and beautiful however many of them are arrogant.

Bangali: You have to be very careful from them because many of them cheaters.

American: Action movies and music.

Disability

Disability

   In my opinion living with disability is one of the most difficult challenges that I cannot imagine how my life would be. Today I saw some videos about people challenged their disability by determination to reach to their ambitions. Everybody should think about how those people live their daily life with disabilities as well as the people who provide care for them. I was so surprised when I saw the video about the man from Iraq who had been abandoned by his family since he was kid then he was lucky to find another family takes care for him. Despite of his disability he could reach to the top of the theater in the famous song program to sing his favorite song where millions of people watch this program through the TV. After that millions of people were amazed from his performance. In the end I would like to say that we should sympathized with those people and share our life with them and never let them to feel that they are different than us.

Ethnocentrism

Ethnocentrism

 

1. On the lines below, write a definition of Ethnocentrism. Find one on the web.

 

Ethnocentrism is belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group.

 

 

 

 

2. Read the cartoon. How is Ethnocentrism reflected in the conversation below?

 

Write your answer on the lines below.

 It seems to me that Bucky don't like to learn about other cultures and he believes that his culture is the best.

3. Looking at the cartoon characters.

 

Imagine them in social situations. What kind of people would (would n’t) they associate with? What kind of events (movies, shows) would (would n’t) they prefer to go? Think of other situations.

 

Describe Bucky

 

Bucky is closed mind so he will associate with arrogance people and with those who like to talk about themselves. Bucky doesn't like spending his time in benefit program.    

 

 

Describe the man talking with Bucky. Let’s call him Tom

 

 Tom wants to be a person who likes to share his culture with other and learn the new features from other cultures.

On a separate sheet of paper, make a drawing of Ethnocentrism. You don’t have to draw well.

 

 

Class Divided

 The video was talking about a great teacher who conducted a class about how her students should treat other people. In the beginning she told them that they should treat others as brothers. Then she asked the students how they treat Indian and people with different color. They answered we don’t treat them as brothers. Why!! Because they are blacks or different. After that she decided to give them a message about meaning of racism by dividing her students into two groups blue eyes and brown eyes. She told the students that blue eyes are better than brown eyes because they are smarter than brown eyes so she separated them then she started treat them friendly and she let them to play in the ground yard while blue eyes stayed in the class. By this way they hated each other. In the next day she preferred the brown eyes than blue eyes. Students realized that discrimination is so dangerous where the hating and hostility grown in their heart.  In the end they learned that they should respect all the people and treat them as brothers.