Executive Summary
This report provides an analysis and evaluation
Table of Contents
Title page i
Executive Summary ii
Table of Contents iii
Introduction p1
- 1. Purpose p1
- 2. Scope p1
- 3. Method p1
Complaint p1
Findings p1
Recommendations p3
- 1. Recommendations for the parties p3
- 2. Recommendations for the University p3
References p4
Introduction
1. Purpose
The purpose of this report was to analyse an incident in the classroom where a student was convicted of being culturally insensitive, identify what occurred in this scenario, and isolate a solution to the problem.
2. Scope
This report will address three fundamental themes of intercultural comm-unication: stereotyping, discrimination, prejudice, essentialism, and their func-tions in every day life, relativism and ethnocentrism as a role in worldview, and the rapid increase in cultural diversification around the world. Gender and sexuality are not deemed relevant to the case at hand, and will not be exam-ined in this report.
3. Method
A variety of academic sources have been referenced and reviewed to provide un-biased and correct information.
Complaint
During a class discussion of the Sudanese Civil War, a student attending the class who is of Southern Sudanese nationality spoke-out about his hatred for all Islamic people which greatly offended a number of other students in the classroom, one of which is of Afghan decent, and a practicing Muslim. The teacher and some students chimed in with various degrees of opinions and attempted too reason in a just manor, but the Southern Sudane...
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... and acknowledge dissimilarities. Prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping have no place in the university, but rather than labeling people who partake in these acts as a racist, it would be in the university’s and student’s best interests to help educate one another on cultural diversity and further their intercultural praxes.
References
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- Jeffrey Passel and D’Vera Cohn. “The Global Religious Landscape, 2012.” Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C. (December 18, 2012). http://www.pewforum.org/2012/12/18/global-religious-landscape-exec/, accessed on Monday 21, 2014.
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Oxtoby, Willard G., and Alan F. Segal. A Concise Introduction to World Religions. Oxford, Canada: Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Hopfe, L. M., & Woodward, M. R. (2007). Religions of the World (10th ed.) New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
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