Exercise #5

Cultural Dimension	Character Todd, Puro, Aisha or other	Outsourced Scene or Circumstance
Communication- direct/indirect	Todd and his manager	Direct communication ( when the manager was talking with Todd to convince him to go to India)
Planning – People / time	Todd and his manager	Time( The manager gives Todd specific time to finish his work)
Decision-making: rules / relations	Todd and Puro	Rules, He told him to let the worker get faster with the calls so they get the number below 6.
Context – Informal / formal	Todd and his manager	Informal, he was adressing his boss by his first name and their talk was like a buddy to his buddy conversation.

3. When he gets on the train, he cannot find an empty seat. How is this problem
solved for him? How might this be a cultural solution?

A boy stood up to let Todd sit in the chair since he is older than him, but then the boy sat on Mr.Todd lap, this was the boy's perspective of a solution where many people can rest on a seat even with the crowded train.
4. As any exchange student, he has a lot of experiences trying new food. His first
encounter is with an iced drink. What happens?

After trying the iced drink he started to fell sick.

7. Todd wants to check in to a hotel. But Puro insists he comes to a boarding house.
What is the reason he gives Todd?

 The reason Puro told Todd is that if he stayed in the hotel he will feel lonely.
8. As soon as they meet, Aunti Ji starts asking very intimate questions that
Americans who have just met would never ask. What kind of things does she ask?

 She asked him many personal questions, like one of the questions was "What is your salary?".

Exercise #4

World Cultures/ World Choices:

Every culture has what makes it special than other cultures, and the 12 Dimensions help us to clarify what each society have difference that what we have which leads into making better communication and judgement to the other cultures.

Some of the 12 Dimensions are life choices, thinking, and sense of group, those are the points that I will use to show how to get to know other culture, I am going to use Amish group that live in the US for it.

The Amish life choice is different to other people where the selected their own way of clothing and they also stayed away from using electricity by there own but they won't make other people that are "English" as how they call non-Amish, also the way they think is different than other cultures where they don't use firepower like guns and don't want to ever thinking of using it, lastly the sense of group is like a pack of wolves where if they stay together to live rather than living as a lonely fox which is weaker compared to the other. 

In my research to the Amish community they are group of people that uses a language between English and Germany to communicate and they fled from Europe to the US.

Amish having fun playing Baseball

Arabic culture influences your choice:

There are somethings that influence my choice as an Arabic like for example if I wanted to go with my friends out to a mall or cinema we ask what should we wear a Kandoora or T-shirts so nobody would feel out of place with the group.

 In the middle Maradona wearing Kandoora

World View Presentation

Title: UAE and Iran in the Island Dispute

1.    Background facts:  Historic  &  Present. Saeed Al Ebri 

2.    Describe the conflict and participants – what are the two sides?  Saeed Al Ebri

3.  Root causes (possible minor symptoms of these) Faisal Al Hamidi

4.    Apply the WorldViews for All participants: HS / GI / PF   (others?) Khaled Alqubaisi     

5.    What is a suitable collaborative  Re-solution to this conflict? 

How can this situation be avoided in the future in other cases?Khaled Alqubaisi     

References:-

1-Assl, N. (2012, May 12). Will UAE and Iran resolve the three islands dispute? Retrieved March 11, 2015, from http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/05/20125611107172123.html

2-Badeeb, S. (1993, March 1). Iran's Dispute With the UAE Over Three Gulf Islands. Retrieved March 11, 2015, from http://www.wrmea.org/1993-march/iran-s-dispute-with-the-uae-over-three-gulf-islands.html

3-Schell, B. (2014, March 10). IRAN-UAE THREE ISLANDS’ DISPUTE UNRESOLVED. Retrieved March 11, 2015, from http://www.indepthnews.info/index.php/global-issues/2091-iran-uae-three-islands-dispute-unresolved

4-Hilleary, C. (2012, October 18). Iran-UAE Island Dispute Could Escalate. Retrieved March 11, 2015, from http://www.voanews.com/content/iran-uae-island-dispute-could-escalate/1528869.html

5-Erdbrink, T. (2012, April 30). A Tiny Island Is Where Iran Makes a Stand. Retrieved March 11, 2015, from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/world/middleeast/dispute-over-island-of-abu-musa-unites-iran.html?_r=1

Slides:-

Exercise #3

1- Evelyn: She was able to adapt to the location they are in by searching and applying for job.

2-Mrs. Natallie: She was not able to adapt to India where she was distrustful to the Indians, which could mean that she is racist towards them, first she asked for marker to mark her bone that would be extracted and replaced so the doctor won't make a mistake, also she always insisted to say that she wants to go back to her home country even after the successful operation she still insisted to get back.

3- Mr. Garaham: He was able to adapt to the area by going out site seeing the place that he even to start talking to the young ones and playing with them cricket.

4- Mrs. Ainslie: She was not capable to adapt to the area by insisting in staying in the room inside the hotel and not leaving her room. 

5- Mr. Ainsilie: I presume that he was able to adapt to the area for we see him trying to cinvince his wife (The one mentioned above) to leave the room and join him out.

6- The Radio Man: He is the first one to adapt to the location that he is immediately found a room for him and put the radio and commented that the room is now good.

Able

Unable

Muslim Chinese - Collaborative Solution

Since few decades most people has viewed Islam as a terrorist relegion while it is on the other hand The Qura'an never sited a think about killing innocent people for not converting to Islam, while extremest tarnish the Islamic culture, other Muslims are paying the cost of that. The people in Uigher  should not let those people to take the responsibility of what others did, the best solution if people of Uigher let Muslims have their own buses to drive them to their work, but this bus is only for Muslims so they don't fear if there was a terrorist bombing people that aren't Muslims won't get injured, but keep this in mind if a terrorist wants to bomb or kill he won't need to keep his Islamic outfit to do his massacre.

Exercise #2

Title: (Dress code is unfair labeling)

What is the conflict?

The conflict is that expats when arrives to UAE they don't know that are some clothes that shows skin either from beneath the shorts area or the belly button area is not accepted in the UAE, which makes the locals feels offended for not respecting their views which the expats doesn't have an idea towards it.

What is the cultural view behind this conflict?

The cultural view behind this conflict are both Honor/Shame and Guilt/Innocence, the Honor/Shame lies in the locals where they want the expats to respect and wear cloths that doesn't show skin, while on the other hand the expats view are Guilt/Innocent for they were not aware about this dress code the country has.

What is the best solution of this conflict?

The best solution I could think of is to notify the expats before they foot to the country through various airlines to show a small video that tells what to wear in the country, also in the airport there should be a billboard that tells about the dress code in the UAE.

My Worldview:

My worldview depends on three views, so in order they are: Honor/Shame, Guilt/Innocence, and Power/Fear. The Honor/Shame is the most becuase it is the most worldview in my country, the second is Guilt/Innocence since there must be justice to be served and the guilt and innocence are a major point in them, lastly Power/Fear which is for me doesn't feel that much of influence maybe if I was in other country might show me the influence of Power/Fear.

Exercise #1

The Bullfighting:-

Bullfighting is a major sport that happens in Spain after the Running of The Bulls, it is consider as a Spanish tradition, but why this should be selected as tradition, the Flamenco isn't enough to be a tradition event.

The Bullfighting in my opinion is cruel for that the bulls gets stabbed by colorful arm sized dart that penetrates it skin and bleed it so it could get tired and dizzy until it dies, this by itself is so bad, in our religion that if you are going to kill any kind of animal to use it meat as food the animal should be killed by slitting it throat so it dies swiftly, there is many usage the Spanish government can use in this big arena and those bulls for other type of entertainment, they could do it as we do it here in Fujairah where two bulls headbutts the other until one defeats the other but people stop the winner from delivering the final blow, also they could use the bulls to make a big bull rodeo "even though they use it on other occasions", but killing an animal slowly and torturing it is a burn mark on the humanity that should be healed off by the tourist, the tickets for bullfighting get sold out which encourage this murder parties to continue on.

I will not go to bullfighting even if it was to see other culture tradition, it is like come with us to see this person death and have fun for him being slaughtered.

Fujairah Bullfighting