Monday, November 19, 2012

A Class Divided

it all started when the teacher wanted to teach the kids about racism and ethnocentric by splitting them in two and give each a  superior power on each other by their eye, she first started by making the blue eyed kids superior over the brown eyes by giving them more brake time and praise them all the time, the result were in less than 15 minute the blue eyes turned into monsters and started discriminating the brown eye kids, but due to the praises the blue eyes performed better in class rather than the discriminated suppressed  brown eyes kids, the next day the teacher switch and made the brown eye superior and the result were amazing and the tides turned, in the end the teacher managed to send the massage is not to discriminate.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

ethnocentric cartoon

zero, y. (2012, November 13). Brace Yourselves! Xenophobic Post Is Comming! - Meme Center. Meme Center Internet Memes, Make Your Own Funny Memes. Retrieved November 14, 2012, from http://www.memecenter.com/fun/894542/brace-yourselves-xenophobic-post-is-comming#comments

Monday, November 12, 2012

Are Emiratis Ethnocentric?

1. this country is ethnocentric to the core, when we look at the KSA we look as a place for prayer and getting troubled,
2. when we look at american we think it's the most corrupted country.
3. when we look at european, it's our modren vacation destination.
4, when we look at Australia we remember 3 thing, sheep, kangaroo, and the boomerang.
5. when we look at russian, it's were we get our AK, and a lot of ads and Russian women.
6. when we look at pakistan, it's were we get our rice,
7.when we look at Brazil and Argentina, we think they are born with a football.
8. it's gonna take me 50 sentence to even tell how ethnocentric this country is.

Monday, November 5, 2012

Quotations Quiz Goal 3 Culture & Communication Outcome 4




Cultural Views

Speaker
Quote
Meaning
Dwight Eisenhower
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
You judge a country with their advantages above their standard thing and it then both disappear
Martin Luther King Jr.
All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
We should treat our selves brilliant because we are linked
Sheik Zayed
A nation without a past is a nation without a present or a future. Thanks to God, our nation has a flourishing civilisation, deep-rooted in this land for many centuries. These roots will always flourish and bloom in the glorious present of our nation and in its anticipated future.
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 have conflux between many things and we have to choose.
Mahatma Gandhi
A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and souls of its people.
The culture of the country depends on how people loves and treat people in the country
Niqab debate
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 traditional should be respected if it respets the rights of men and women.
ML King Jr.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
God doesn’t care about skin color. God cares about freedom for everyone.
Albert Schweitzer
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
That mean I will treat you like a human if you did the same
Frank Borman
There's no question that it was a coffin, and I'd have flown it gladly
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?
One doesn’t  simply love his country but to love others too ( prevents ethnocentrism) 
DD. Eisenhower

If people of the world can’t get along, nothing will work.
Sheik 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?
Because most of western society suffered from war and stopped fighting, and in that period Arabs where split because of the European imperials 
Martin Luther King, Jr.
One must not judge a person by his skin but by him personality
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.


When people and treated and looked at in a better way they will interact better with the rest of the people instead of imprisons themselves with the fear of social