Who are the Americans?

Who are the Americans?

Discuss and note your ideas

Who lives in America? Where did they come from? When?

• England , they came from Europe  in the 17^th century
• Spain , they came from Europe , in the 17^th century
• France , they came from Europe , in the 17^th century

Have you seen any films about people emigrating to America? Which?

• No I didn’t

Were there any immigrants on The Titanic?

• Yes there were immigrants on the titanic (http://www.titanic-nautical.com/RMS-Titanic-Immigration.html)

Research

Look at this website and study the data, especially the ‘by region’ information to find out where Americans come from: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/immigration_data/

1. Explore the historical timeline to see where the immigrants arrived from in different eras. Choose one link from ‘A New Land’, ‘Expanding America’ and ‘A Place of Refuge’ menus and note: Where did the people come from and why did they go to America.

A New Land:  they came from Europe  (Spain)( France) (England) most of them they immigrated because of freedom and food and resources

Expanding America: They had large of immigrates while the revolution war . in 19^th century 1 million slaves from Africa where imported there and they were not citizen  in early 19^th century nearly all immigrates was from western Europe  

A Place of Refuge:  world war 2 happened and the economy went down and it wasn’t the perfect land to go and the immigration percentage went down . some people thought of immigrating to some another country

2. Look at the ‘Building a Modern America’ – ‘A Multicultural America’ page. What information can you find about recent US immigration?  A major change to immigration legislation in 1965 paved the way for new waves of immigration from all over of the world. Asians and Latin Americans arrived in large numbers, while European immigration declined.

3. Now click on ‘Explore Ellis Island’ and answer the questions. (There is 1 question per page.)

·         Where did immigrants land when they arrived in America? 

Ellis Island Immigration Station between 1892 and 1954

·         How long did it take to cross the Atlantic? 

This trip across the Atlantic ocean lasted for one two weeks

·         What was the first thing people saw in America? 

Statue of liberty

·         What did the officers give the immigrants? 

Paper with all the names

·         What did the doctors do while the people walked upstairs?

 Test the people for any illness

·         Why couldn’t women enter America alone?

·         What did the chalk marks X and P mean? What happened to those people?

·         How many questions did they ask immigrants? 

Twenty nine questions

·         When did pre-departure health checks start?

·         What facilities were available at the bottom of the stairs?

·         What happened at ‘The Kissing Post’? 

it got this nickname because its where family and friends waited their loved ones

Think!

When people come to work in the UAE, what must they do? (Paperwork, procedures, tests…)

America is a multicultural society; it is culturally diverse. It is not a ‘melting pot’, it is more like a ‘salad bowl’. Americans often talk about being ‘first generation’, ‘second generation’ or third generation’ immigrants. ‘First generation’ is term used for the children of immigrants, ‘second generation’ is the term for the grandchildren of immigrants, so ‘third generation’ is ……………………………………………………? By the second or third generation, the connection with the immigrant’s country may be very weak or non-existent so we can say that these people have assimilated into the culture. Over the years, some people and cultural groups have assimilated into American society. They have blended and are examples of assimilation. When two cultures meet, acculturation happens. This is the meeting of the cultures and the process of adapting to each other and adopting new behaviours, which can be a one-way or two-way process. However, some groups may keep many of the customs, traditional ways and characteristics of their home culture even though they adapt to the new country. These people have acculturated by adopting new behaviours in their new country, but they have not assimilated. Immigrants and the first generation may acculturate but not assimilate, but later generations may be assimilated.

Think again!

Why do/did some people/groups assimilate and others do/did not?

portfolio assignment #4 - Cultural Diversity

Quiz – What are Multiculturalism, Assimilation and Acculturation?

True or False? If FALSE, write the TRUE answer.

1.       A Multicultural society can be described as a society with a single set of values.	False – A Multicultural Society is a society with a variety of values.
2.       A “salad bowl” represents varied and separate cultures.	True
3.       One aspect of Multiculturalism is respecting different cultures.	True
4.       Cultural Diversity can be represented by a “melting pot”	True & False
5.       Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	False – Learning another culture and adding them is ‘Acculturation’.

Define in your own words:

1.       “Melting Pot”:  blending of cultures, or different cultures in a society

2.       “Salad Bowl”: different cultures are mixed together, but each have their uniqueness.

3.       “Assimilation”: mixed together to be similar.

4.       “Acculturation”: adding different cultures but stay different.

5.       “Enculturation”: having a second culture as first culture from birth.

Complete the sentence with words from the text:

Acculturation often results in changes to ______Culture______, _______Customs____and _____Social_Institutions_, as well as changes in food, _____Language______ and _______Clothing_______.

Give a synonym:

varied	diverse	respect	honor/esteem	dominate	control
multiple	numerous/several	central	middle/centered/median	interacting	communicate/act together
specific	particular	represents	means/stands for	adopt	select/accept

Give the opposite:

varied	unvaried/homogeneous	respect	disrespect	gradually	rapidly
multiple	few	common	rare	dominant group	minority group
specific	general	contrasted with	similar to	adopt	reject

Reflection #2 Future Center

• First of all, those people are not different from us they are like us, but unfortunately they born like this. In the past this sect, was an outcast in society. They feel embarrassed of them and their disability. So for a long time Their rights were stolen, in all respects: educational, social, sports and entertainment. But now a days they have been change 360 degree.

• The handicapped, in UAE get a lot of care, and they get there respect, they don’t fell there are different from the others. They work in all sectors and obtain positions.

•  These recommendations came from our president His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan and The rest of the president of the Emirates. To tack care about them and build for them all the centers that they needs, for example they make for them some events like,trained to sewing,

• Encourage and support the handicapped who are qualified to create projects with feasibility and economic return.

• All of these things work for three goals, to save his dignity, know their duties and rights and equality between them and members of the community.

Everest climbing team: Cultural Diversity-portfolio#3

Watch the film and take notes to answer the following questions:

1.    List the team members by name, with their duties and country

                                                                  

Name	Responsibility	Country	Skils
Jamling	find ways to the top of mountains	India	Guide
Seggara	make roads on mountains	Spain	Mountain climbing
Roger	researching rocks	Uk	Geologist
ED victor	lead his team	USA	Leader
Sumio	recording the trip details	Japan	Documentary

  

2.    What were the qualities or skills of each member that benefited the team?

-       Climbing is most benefit.

3.    How was the Team helped by ‘cultural diversity’ to attain their goal (reach the summit of Everest)?

ya they was helping each other  and every one has a major job to to it.

reflective log #1 Cultural Identity :what does it mean to be Emirati

  

• In the Binning its's a pleasure of talking about that  I'm Emirati. Emirati came from the world of Emirates  and its demonstrates that you belong to this country.UAE consists of seven emirates united under one name and one flag announcing the beginning of a new age, and this union was at the hands of our leader and our father and our teacher, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan  Al-Nahyan.


• United Arab Emirates began forty years ago when sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Alnahyan who built the basics of this country made a suggestion before forty years ago to combine Abu dhabi and six more countries together and become a one country and that what happened and now days its called united Arab emirates its a one country , one accent , one religion which is Islam , one type of food which is harees thareed and many more one traditional , one traditional cloth which is kandoora one language which is Arabic and most of emirati likes 2 types of animals which is a traditional even grandfather did like those animals and they used those animals for hunting and walking distance they are the falcon and camel. United arab emirates have a big company which is adnoc united arab emiartes use to depend on the oil only but now its changed they do depend on the oil but not as before they have may other resources now days.




      In conclusion United Arab Emirates is the country i was raised in and born in i would never be the same if i wasnt a Emirati its a owner to be a Emirati and may god bless this country all time 

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