Exercise 6

Adverse Reactions to Diversity – Portfolio exercise #6

Course:      Cultural Diversity                                  Code:  LSSS N205

 

Name: Abdulla Nabeel AL-Afifi        ID#   H00131526              

 

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

 

1.      Define:

a)     Stereotyping : it’s to think or treat someone or a specific group of people due to their skin color or origins because it has been  this way for a while

b)    Prejudice : it’s an opinion which  isn’t based on fact or actual experience

c)     Bias : it’s to prefer one person or group of people due to gender or age or other reasons.

d)    Discrimination : the unjust treatment of different categories of people

 

2.      Give an example of each.

a)      Stereotyping is when the students believed that black people or Asian people should be treated and should be told that they are less or beneath white people due to the color of their skin.

b)      Bias is when the student mentioned that students with blue eyes are smarter and better then with brown eyes because she here self has blue eyes.

c)      Discrimination is when she gave one category of people either blue eyes or brown extra time on the play ground.

d)      Prejudice is to say that black people aren’t smarter than white or that they aren’t as good as them.

 

 

Watch  Class Divided

ü Understanding

With partners, answer the following:

1.      Where, when and with whom did this experiment take place?

An American School class room in 1950 the days where Tuesday & Wednesday, it was performed by the class teacher to her students.

2.      Describe the experiment.

She made every student feel both side so that they can know how it feels to be different.

What were the results?

 

The students realized that stereotyping and racial profiling is very bad and they all agreed to stop it .

3.      How successful do you believe it was?

 It very successful because she convinced them and made them want to stop what is happening

Going Deeper

In groups of four, discuss the following:

Ø  a time you experienced prejudice or discrimination

when talking with foreigners or tourists the automatically predict that because im a local that means I have difficulties when speaking English.

 

Ø  a time you discriminated against somebody else

When I try to help the local people at work and when asked for help from some people I refuse to assist.

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

Once while checking in one of the hotels in Bangkok I saw a man fighting with the receptionist because the hotel policy says no Thai people allowed.