Wednesday, September 21, 2011

cultural diversity

Cultural diversity is having different cultures and other differences. On the other hand culture is education, language, religion, traditions, and too many other things.

In these days, we must know the cultural diversity especially in our beloved country. Because there are a lot of different cultures. For example, there are a lot of Indian people who have a very different culture than the Arab culture. However, we should keep our culture and protect it from other cultures and have the good things from other cultures.

In closing, we must be aware that we will see strange things but, it's normal for others because it is their culture. So we should respect them and their culture.

My reflection:


The website figures are from the year 2000 and are based on a total population of around 4.5M. Now of course it will be much higher than before, due to of the increase in the birth rate and decrease in the death rate because of the development in the medical field.

Moreover the number of the Emirati people is much more than that today. Also The percentage of foreigners nowadays is much more than before. As we can see there are more Indians and Filipinos than before. However citizens are fewer than foreigners because when the Emirates started developing more  foreigners started to come to the UAE than before.



Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Ethnic groups

UAE

Introduction to Diversity

UAE Demographics:

Ethnic Groups Percentage 2,ooo

Arab 48.1%

12.2% UAE Arab

9.4% Bedouin

6.2% Egyptian Arab

4.1% Omani Arab

4% Saudi Arab

South Asian 35.7%

Iranian 5%

Filipino 3.4%

White European 2.4%

Others 5.4%


Religions Percentage 2005

Muslim 62% (80% Sunni)

Hindi 21%

Christian 9%

Buddhist 4%

Others 4%


Source: http://www.worldstatesmen.org/United_Arab_Emirates.html