Portfolio #5

Goal 2 Adverse Reactions to Diversity – 2012 - Semester

Course:      Cultural Diversity                                  Code:  LSS N2053

Name:        Ibrahim Awad Bazuhair                     ID: h00206172                                  

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

1.      Define:

a.       Stereotyping: something confirming to a fixed or general pattern.

b.      Prejudice: it is often used to refer to preconceived usually unfavorable judgment toward people or a person.

c.       Bias: a personal and sometimes unreasonable judgment.

d.      Discrimination: is the prejudicial or distinguishing treatment of an individual based on his or her membership like; skin color; race; religion.

2.      Give an example of each.

Stereotypes: “All black people eat chicken or” or “Muslims are terrorists” or “men handle things better then woman”.

Prejudice: like saying the all Egyptians are lairs before even meeting them.

Bias: separating people like “While people and black people “

Discrimination: the same as Bias like saying “those people are yellow don’t talk to them”

Watch  Class Divided

ü Understanding

With partners, answer the following:

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

    United stats, 1960s , third graders.

2.      Describe the experiment.

   The third graders were dividing into two groups based on their eye color, 1 group had blue eyes and the other had brown eyes.  the experiment was held for two days, first day the blue eyes had the advantage over the brown eyes and the had to wear a collar to show that they are brown eyes so do not get play, talk with them basically they were treated as outcasts. the second day the roles changed the brown eyes had the advantage over the blue eyes. at the end of the experiment the collars were removed and all the students were happy that they don't need to hate their friends and realized that discrimination is inhuman.        

3.      What were the results?

 the results were excellent  all the participants embraced the concept " Discrimination is not good"

 4.      How successful do you believe it was?

 I believe it was a major success to make all the students hate discrimination in 2 days is good