Portfolio exercise #7

Ethnocentrism Assignment – Exercise #7 EXTRA    ++

1.     Read about Ethnocentrism on Edmodo (Week #6)

2.    List three examples of ethnocentrism from history

·         South Africa's National Party

·         Kahanism (is a nationalist ideology)

·         Aryan

3.    What country is known for being ethnocentric today?

·         America.

4.    What is the famous quote from Shylock which reminds all of us of our humanity?

·         I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

5.    Look at the two maps of ethnocentric Americans and ethnocentric Indians.

6.    Now make your own map showing how Emiratis see the world: