Exercise 4 - Adverse Reactions to Diversity

Adverse Reactions to Diversity – Portfolio exercise #4

 

Course:      Cultural Diversity   Code:  LSS N2053 

 Name:    Ahmed Mohamed Al Jefri                         ID :      H00224953                                                    

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

1.      Define.

 

a.       Stereotyping :   The definition of a stereotype is any commonly known public belief about a certain social group or a type of individual.

 

b.      Prejudice :  liking a person because they have blue eyes.

 

c.       Bias  :  cutting a skirt on the diagonal so that it flows freely when worn.

 

d.      Discrimination : make a discriminant between people by their religion , nationality and ethnic .

 

2.      Give an example of each.

 

 

 

 

Watch  Class Divided

 

ü Understanding

 

With partners, answer the following:

 

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

 

2.      Describe the experiment.

 

3.      What were the results?

 

4.      How successful do you believe it was?

 

This experiment took in the USA , in 1968 with some boys and girls have blue eyes and brown eyes . The year 1968 is an important in the history because of Abolition of Racial Discrimination and the government gave everyone his rights . The teacher chose the brown eyes and tell him you are better than the blue eyes, then she chose an opposite. The first result is that the children with a blue eyes became sad, after that, the second result is that the children didn’t accept their teacher when she said “ if you see a black man, laughing of him “ . There are no difference between white and black people.