Este blog foi criado no âmbito da disciplina de Inglês, por um grupo de alunas do 11.º ano do curso de Línguas e Humanidades da Escola Secundária de Peniche, portanto as informações aqui colocadas podem nao estar correctas.

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Interracial marriages


Interracial marriage occurs when two people of differing racial groups marry, often creating multiracial children.
Unfortunately many people don’t accept interracial marriages. An interracial couple can have difficulties by those who surround them, they suffer discrimination and are ridiculed, sometimes by their friends and own parents. Some interracial couples have difficulty when their children have shades of skin different from their relatives or brothers.

Cultural diversity

Cultural diversity is effective in society and in economy being considered one source of enrichment of human life generating creativity a and causing the innovation with it's linguistic and creative expression.
The cultural diversity is important by it's huge innovation that gives each society has it's own references. The combination of ideas between people can arise something completely revolutionary, admirable and innovative.

Multiculturalism

The multiculturalism phenomenon or cultural diversity happens with people of several cultural spaces which many times are obliged to relationated and to live togheter.
In a region, due to immigration, is possible the assistance of several cultural nucleus and social groups that by many reasons feel marginalized.
Before the assistance different cultures, people can assume attitudes like ethnocentrism, cultural relativism and the interculturalism.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Stereotypes


A "stereotype" is a generalization about a person or group of persons. We develop stereotypes when we are unable or unwilling to obtain all of the information we would need to make fair judgments about people or situations. In the absence of the "total picture," stereotypes in many cases allow us to "fill in the blanks." Our society often innocently creates and perpetuates stereotypes, but these stereotypes often lead to unfair discrimination and persecution when the stereotype is unfavorable.
For example, if we are walking through a park late at night and encounter three senior citizens wearing fur coats and walking with canes, we may not feel as threatened as if we were met by three high school-aged boys wearing leather jackets. Why is this so? We have made a generalization in each case. These generalizations have their roots in experiences we have had ourselves, read about in books and magazines, seen in movies or television, or have had related to us by friends and family.