Adverse Reactions to Diversity – Portfolio exercise #6
Course: Cultural Diversity Code: LSSS N205
Name:Eissa AlMehairi ID#H00269455
With a partner, please answer the following. You may use internet resources to help you.
1. Define:
a. Stereotyping: An exaggerated belief, image about a person or a group of people.
b. Prejudice: An opinion, prejudgment or attitude about a group or its individual members.
c. Bias: A cause to feel against some people especially in a way considered to be unfair.
d. Discrimination: Behavior that treats people unequally because of their group membership.
2. Give an example of each.
a. All teachers are smart.
b. All Saudis are stupid.
c. Non- locals are treated not as well as locals.
d. It is where some of them are racist; they hate people from different nationalities.
Watch Class Divided
ü Understanding
With partners, answer the following:
1. Where, when and with whom did this experiment take place?
- In 1950, primary school in a grade 3 classroom.
2. Describe the experiment.
-It was based on children eyes, in a day the blue eye children are smarter, in the next day the brown eye children are the smarter.
3. What were the results?
-it was affective, they thought that they are out of the group.
4. How successful do you believe it was?
-I believe that it was very successful also after they grew up.
Going Deeper 
In groups of four, discuss the following:
Ø a time she or he experienced prejudice or discrimination
-I was in Spain, and stayed in a apartment locate in a place where there are all Spanish people there, they saw me as stranger; where the police came and searched me.
Ø a time she or he discriminated against somebody else
-An emirate person shout on Indian guy to go away because he is not-local.
Ø a time she or he witnessed discrimination and did nothing about it
-I saw a Bengali guy get beat up by his boss because he didn’t get that little job done, I didn’t do anything because I was with my family.
Ø a time she or he witnessed discrimination and did something about it.
-I saw an employee get hit by his boss in a coffee shop because he broke a cup of tea, I advised him after he recognized his mistake and he apologized to the employee.
