Stereo Types

Jeremy Brown - a British school teacher, who is attempting to teach English to a class of mixed nationality students.

An Episode started with a conversation between Mr. Brown and Miss Courtney (principal of the college). She was quite surprised, when she saw him, as she expected for a woman teacher, by the reason that the previous man teacher - Mr. Warburton - was departed, and Miss Courtney just decided that it is typical for a man not to have any patience. Brown proved that he was well qualified for this job and she wouldn't have any problems with him.

From the first class Mr. Brown was faced with lot of misunderstanding of the words and phrases he is trying to teach. During all the episode he keeps putting himself in a huge amount of funniest  situations ever. Some of the students don't speak any English, as for example, Juan Cervantes - a Spanish bartender - he understands nothing from all the things the  teacher said. All the time he is using Spanish word "por favor" (please). Another good example - JamilaRanjha - an Indian housewife. Knitting is all what she is doing during the class.

At the beginning of the first class Mr. Brown asked all the students to introduce themselves: say the name, occupation and country of origin. Giovanni Cupello - an Italian macho, said that he is working as a "cookada" (the way how he described his chef position at the Italian restaurant). Ranjeet Singh said: "I am a very important member of the British underground”, (means he is working at the Metro). Ali Nadim - an unemployed Pakistani Muslim answered: " I am working at the moment not anywhere at all", and added: "Only one day a week I am working. I am going to the unemployment exchange to be collecting my money. I get more money for not be working than then I am working".

Students fight with each other by the any small reason: Maximillian Papandrious - typical Greek. He is attracted to Danielle (a "French beauty", as Miss Courtney described her for the first time ) and, because of this, has many fights with Giovanni Cupello, who's also  trying to win a "French beauty". Ali Nadim is fighting with Ranjeet Singh for some religion reason.And Taro Nagazumi - a Japanese electronics representative, who's extremely proud of his country, can not missed a chance and remind  to Chung Su-Lee - a secretary at the Chinese Embassy, that Japan is the greatest country and only there the best cameras in the world.

So, when Miss Courtney met exhausted Brown after the class she said: "Job getting you down already?".  Brown answered: "No, no I'm fine! Never felt better". And added: "That window you nailed down! The one Mr. Warburton climbed out of.. I think I ought to put a few more nails in it, just to be on the safe side". ...

Discrimination

Jane Elliott - a great school teacher, an anti-racism activist and educator. One day she had a class discussion with pupils about racism in general. To show her class how racial discrimination worked, she organized an exercise.

So, Jane divided her all-white children into two groups based on eye color. She told the blue-eyed children that they were superior to their brown-eyed classmates, and she told the brown-eyed, who had to wear identifying collars, that they were less intelligent and poorly behaved. The result, according to her, was that blue-eyed children began to behave arrogantly and, after a short while, the brown-eyed  began to accept their lower position.

The following day, Elliott told the children that she had made a mistake, and that it was really brown-eyed people who are “superior”, and that blue-eyed people are actually the inferior ones.

On both days, the children from  the "inferior" group become confused and frustrated. Their body language was defensive, their former friends tormented them and their academic performance dropped.

 The students assigned to the "superior" group, who were kind and tolerant before the experiment, became mean and appeared to enjoy discriminating against the "inferior" group. Their jokes and actions became focused on the "inferior" students.

 At the end of the experiment, Elliott spent days discussing with her students what it felt like to be one of those labeled "inferior." The kids described their anger. They talked about their pain and loneliness as the "superior" students were treated better and given extra privileges.

In a very smart way Jane showed to her pupils that here is no difference between all the people. She taught them about equality and respect.

Cultural diversity

What is Cultural Diversity?
Cultural diversity is when group of people from different countries are living or working in the same environment peacefully, but having different beliefs, language, traditional, food,clothes and different ways of thinking.


What do i expect to learn on this cause?
Cultural diversity supports to encourage innovation and exchanging the knowledge and ideas;also it brings more interesting art,literature and food.Over long periods it encourages tolerance.
However,when places are becoming you offten get clashes between different cultures. Eventually they learn to rub along together and that helps create the tolerance.
So overall, i've got to say its a good thing but there are short term difficulties involved.


What have I already learnt?
 Cultural diversity is important because it allows for people to be able to work together with different kinds of people. It allows for a better understanding of other cultures and ideas.

What do I know about Hedley?
His name is Hedly butterfield from UK . He is married and having 2 daughters. He has been in more than 30 countries in the world and some of his travel was for a historic reason and some for work.And he has worked in Brunei for 10 years and Qatar for 9 years,recently working at HCT in the UAE.His favourite sport is rugby and favourite city is Abu Dhabi.