Exercise #1

1.   Look at these ten aspects which make up your cultural identity. Then, fill in the last two columns – one for somebody who works for your family and one for an expatriate friend. There are other aspects of cultural diversity but these are the main ones.

Aspect	‘ism’	Frankie	Mohamed	Your Family Employee	Your Expatriate Friend
Race/Ethnicity	Racism (Racist)	White British	Emirati	Philippines	Egyptian
Language		English	Arabic	local language / English	Arabic
Religion	Religious bigotry (a religious bigot)	Christian (Protestant)	Muslim (Sunni)	Christian	Muslim
Values and beliefs		Socialist	Carnivore	Socialist	Socialist
Disability	Ableism	Able	Able	Able	Able
Class	Classism	Middle Class	High Class!	High class	bachelor Degree
Gender	Sexism (Sexist)	Female	Male	Female	Male
Age	Ageism (Ageist)	60	20	30	22
Educational Background		M.Ed.	Undergraduate	Graduated	Graduated
Sexual Orientation	Hetrosexualist (Homophobic)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

2. How many countries are there in the world today? about 204 countries .

3. How many ethnic groups are there in the world today? 100 + 

Here is an incomplete list of ethnic groups. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_ethnic_groups

4. How many ethnic groups are there living in the UAE? between 5 - 6 .

5. What is wrong with this chart?  Out dated .

6. What percentage of the UAE population is Emirati in 2014?  11.58% 

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/influx-of-foreigners-spikes-uae-population-to-8-3m-1.787518

7. Why is the percentage so small? more workers coming in .

8. The UAE's population strategy plans to make Emiratis the majority in the country or up to 40 per cent, by 2021 , members of the Federal National Council (FNC) told Gulf News.

9. Do you think this will happen? the number of employee will be increase .

10. Why do you think this? because the government doing new plan to increase the numb

11. Do you have any different ethnic groups in your ancestry or your family today?  yes .

12. What are the benefits of having a mixed cultural heritage?

learn more about the other cultures .