الأربعاء، 14 نوفمبر 2012

Volunteering- reflection#4

Volunteering


A volunteer is a person who freely offers to undertake a task or take part in a specific activity. Volunteering is not always about giving nor only one member gets all the advantage. In fact, at the Honor Village Campadia that is located in the Siem Reap, many volunteers such as the ex-students from the British School Al Khubaira took a benefit from their volunteering and the way it changed their life style. The volunteers left their family and country for a period of time in order to try their best to offer the children what every child in the planet deserve .The volunteers in Campadia where treated in a welcomed way, comfortable atmosphere and were not forced to do anything, under the perfect organizer and the founder, Sue, it all depends on your own will and desire to help the children; whom where motivated, either in learning or teaching them several skills which is going to benefit them and here comes the child’s role to develop their selves to have a better and secure future. The volunteers in Campadia will gain several skills. For example, as Alice said in the video I watched, I believe all the volunteers whom worked in the Honor Village Campodia had a great work experience, learned new skills such as team work, met new people, and give the society around them the courage to participate in such well organized places. As a conclusion, Campadia’s children enjoyed learning football, where taught English and the main subjects required, Art and craft that turned into a colorful art project where people are buying them for different occasions, music and dancing interested the children and Ranya offered her little experience in playing the guitar, and computer skills to reach the outside world. I believe Campadia will produce children that are ready to face the world.

الأحد، 4 نوفمبر 2012

personal refliction #3




Discrimination and Prejudice

From the video I watched in YouTube about brown and blue eyes, I had a flashback of a situation where I met one of my friends at work. He had an appearance of the Indians, especially with his face and attitude. At first, I was amazed and did not accept the fact of having a work colleague with an Indian nationality. I kept avoiding him and did not interact with him. After a short period of time, I recognized that he was doing an excellent job and completes all his shores on time that made me curious know him more and feel comfortable with him. I found that his mother is Indian and he had taken his appearance from her and he was proud of having a mother with a different nationality that made feel a great respect towards him.

 Another example of a discrimination situation is, when I was in the UK finishing my studies, one of my friends was the team leader of my study group and he was irresponsible and did not take his work seriously. Our principle decided to change him and put me in charge, but one member of our group disagreed because he thought I do not have the right characteristics of leadership because he just did not know me personally. The principle didn’t pay attention to what he said and they stick to their opinion. I was doing my job greatly and every member was satisfied with my rules, then that guy came and apologized of what he said earlier and we became good friends in a short period of time.

Portfolio Exercise #6 - Stereotyping & Blue Eyes Video




Goal 2 Adverse Reactions to 
Diversity – 2012 - Semester







With a partner, please answer the following. You may use internet resources to help you.  
1.      Define:
a. Stereotyping: judging someone without knowing him / judging entire group of people based on what some of them may do.
 
b. Prejudice: 
your feeling toward individuals based on group of perceptions.

c. Bias: not neutral.
 
d. Discrimination: 
Any action that denies opportunities to a person on the basis of their race, gender, age, religion.
2.      Give an example of each term
a. Stereotyping :  Sudan’s are lazy
 
b. Prejudice :
I don’t want to work with this guy he will let me do all the work alone.
c. Bias :  
I will help him and give him a good grades because he is my friend .
 

d. Discrimination:
dominant white against black.


Watch  Class Divided
ü Understanding
With partners, answer the following:
1.      Where, when and with whom did this experiment take place? 1969, in the USA, public school with 3rd graders.
2.      Describe the experiment.  Blue eyes people are better than brown eyes they were treated differently then they exchanged the experiment
3.      What were the results? 1st experiment : brown eyes felt insulted . 2nd experiment : blue eyes felt the same when they exchanged the experiment . 
4.      How successful do you believe it was? They felt happy when they knew that respecting others is better than judging them by color

Portfoilo assignment#5- cultural diversity





Multiculturalism, Assimilation and Acculturation
Quiz – What are Multiculturalism, Assimilation and Acculturation?
True or False? If FALSE, write the TRUE answer.

False; Culture, school

1.    1.A Multicultural society can be described as a society with a single set of values.
      True
2.A “salad bowl” represents varied and separate cultures.
     True
3.One aspect of Multiculturalism is respecting different cultures.
Both ( True & False )
4.Cultural Diversity can be represented by a “melting pot”
      False; uncultured
5.Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.

Define in your own words:
1. “Melting Pot” mixture of cultures
2. “Salad Bowl” Different cultures with each other, but each culture has its own character.
3. “Assimilation” Everything mixed up becoming the same.
4. “Acculturation” Is a process in which member of one cultural group adopt the beliefs and behavior of another group
5. “Enculturation” Is used to describe the process of first culture learning
Complete the sentence with words from the text:
Acculturation often results in changes to ___culture_ _customs____ and ___social__, as well as changes in food, ______clothing______ and ________language___.
Give a synonym:
control
dominate
honor
respect
diverse
varied
communicate
interacting
Centered\median
central
several
multiple
accept
adopt
stands
represents
particular
specific



Give the opposite:
rapidly
gradually
disrespect
respect
homogeneous
varied
minority group
dominant group
rare
common
few
multiple
reject
adopt
similar to
contrasted with
general
specific