Ten Aspects of Cultural Diversity

These are the ten aspects of cultural diversity which we are going to concentrate on

in this course.

 

· Race

· Ethnicity - more than 5000 ethnic groups in the world today

· Language

· Religion

· Value and belief systems (The Amish)

· Disability

· Class

· Gender

· Age

· Educational background

1)      Define yourself as an Emirati. Write a short paragraph.

Example – I was born in Abu Dhabi and my nationality is Emirati, _________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

2)      Download Popplet Lite (free app) from the App Store, and then make a Popplet like the diagram below.

 

Put yourself in the centre. Around yourself put the names of six people you know who are not Emirati. Fill in the circles. What makes them different from you? Their language, their

 

3)      Now, let’s complete the table below, based on our class discussion:

Main Category	Sub-Category	Examples
Religion	Hindu, Muslim, Christian	My teacher is a Christian

 

The Major Divisions of the Human Race

Most anthropologists recognize 3 or 4 basic races of man in existence today. These races can be further subdivided into as many as 30 subgroups.

Ethnographic division into races from Meyers Konversationslexikon of 1885-90 is listing:

§  Caucasian races (Aryans, Hamites, Semites)

§  Mongolian races (northern Mongolian, Chinese and Indo-Chinese, Japanese and Korean, Tibetan, Malayan, Polynesian, Maori, Micronesian, Eskimo, American Indian),

Negroid races (African, Hottentots, Melanesians/Papua, “Negrito”, Australian Aborigine, Dravidians, Sinhalese)

Another popular division recognizes 4 major races

The world population can be divided into 4 major races, namelywhite/Caucasian, Mongoloid/Asian, Negroid/Black, andAustraloid. This is based on a racial classification made by Carleton S. Coon in 1962. There is no universally accepted classification for “race”, however, and its use has been under fire over the last few decades. The United Nations, in a 1950 statement, opted to “drop the term ‘race’ altogether and speak of “ethnic groups”. In this case, there are more than 5,000 ethnic groups in the world, according to a 1998 study published in the Scientific American.

 

http://blog.world-mysteries.com/science/how-many-major-races-are-there-in-the-world/