Portfolio Exercise #3

Quiz 2 – What are Multiculturalism, Assimilation and Acculturation? 

True or False? If FALSE, write the TRUE answer.

1.       A Multicultural society can be described as a society with a single set of values.	False
2.       A “salad bowl” represents varied and separate cultures.	True
3.       One aspect of Multiculturalism is respecting different cultures.	True
4.       Cultural Diversity can be represented by a “melting pot”	False
5.       Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	False

Define in your own words:

• “Melting Pot”

A place where different types of people live together and create one community

• “Salad Bowl”

A bowl which contain different types of vegetables 

• “Assimilation”

the process of receiving new facts and understand it 

• “Acculturation”

process by which a human being acquires the culture of a particular society from infancy

• “Enculturation”

The process by which an individual learns the traditional content of a culture and assimilates its practices and values

Complete the sentence with words from the text:

Acculturation often results in changes to Culture, Customs and Social, as well as changes in food, Clothing and Language.

Give a synonym:

varied	diverse	respect	reverence	dominate	control
multiple	many	central	significant	interacting	cooperating
specific	exact	represents	characterizes	adopt	accept

Give the opposite:

varied	homogeneous	respect	disregard	gradually	rapidly
multiple	Few	common	Rare	dominant group	Weak
specific	General	contrasted with	Compared with	adopt	reject

Culture and Personality in Anthropology

Read the section about Culture and Personality in Anthropology. Answer these questions about that section:-

• Define “Anthropology” in your own words

The science of human beings, which study the behavior, physical social culture development of humans. 

• What do you understand by “socialization of children” Give an example

People are the same but they differ when they grow up and their attitude and act. For example people are different by the way of feeding. 

3.       Read this sentence again and give examples of childrearing in different societies and cultures: “socialization creates personality patterns. It helps shape people’s emotions, thoughts, behaviors, cultural values and norms to fit into and function as productive members in the surrounding human society. The study of culture and personality demonstrates that different socialization practices such as childrearing in different societies (cultures) result in different personality types.”

4.       Read this sentence again and say to what extent you agree: “all humans are the same when born, but childrearing in different societies causes deviations in behavior and personalities from each other.”

I agree with the statement above. Because all children gain their culture, language and religion from their parents, family and school. And that’s differ from society to others. 

5.       Reflect on the reading above. Can you see a link between your culture and your personality? Think about that in relation to your own culture first, and then think about personality and culture in a different society. Reflect. Give examples.

There are a big connection between my personality and the culture. Since the UAE culture built on me sort of  values, beliefs and norms and influence me. From the culture I learnt how to speak and dress which is differ from other society. For example; from my culture we learnt that we can’t shake woman hands but for the westerns countries their culture allowed them to shake women hands. That is each culture is differ from the other.  

Portfolio Exercise #2

  Quiz 1 - What is Cultural Diversity

 Read the UNESCO report. True or False? If FALSE, write the TRUE answer.

1.   At least 6000 different languages exist in the world.	True
2.  Over 200 million people live outside the country where they were born.	False
3.  One aspect of Human Rights is respecting different cultures.	True
4.  Cultural Diversity means a lack of respect for freedom of thought.	False
5.  Cultural Diversity can make a society stronger.	True

Vocabulary practice. Define in your own words:

1.       Heterogeneous : ( is a somewhat comparative word )

.       Plurality : ( A large number or amount )

.       Migration : ( To change location periodically )

.       Fundamental : ( Something that is necessary part of a system )

.       Collective strength : ( the power of a group ) 

 Now read the rest of the article, and answer these questions by researching on the internet.

1.       The article mentions food as an example of Cultural Diversity. Can you think of something else which could add interest and richness in a culturally diverse country?

Food, clothes, language and sports.

. Name three ways in which people of different cultures can help a country to function in the new global economy.

 1. bring the international big companies.

2. reduce the tax price or stop taxing.

3. help locals to build international companies 

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3. From the internet, in relation to Cultural Diversity, find a picture and a definition of “Melting pot” and “Garden salad”.

Melting pot:

is a metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous.

http://globalvillage.us/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/flags-of-the-world.jpg

Garden salad:

is a salad consisting mostly of fresh vegetables. The base for the salad are greens such as lettuce or mesclun.

http://img4-1.myrecipes.timeinc.net/i/recipes/su/08/09/garden-salad-su-1835318-l.jpg

3.       Britain today is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. Look on the internet and find out which nationalities make up the “ethnic minority population of over 4 million”.

According to the 2001 Census, the ethnic composition of the United Kingdom was:^[6]

Ethnic group	Population	Proportion of total UK population
White British	700750366497000000050,366,497	85.67%
White (other)	70063096169000000003,096,169	5.27%
Indian	70061053411000000001,053,411	1.8%
Pakistani	7005747285000000000747,285	1.5%
White Irish	7005691232000000000691,232	1.2%
Mixed	7005677117000000000677,117	1.2%
Black Caribbean	7005565876000000000565,876	1.0%
Black African	7005485277000000000485,277	0.8%
Bangladeshi	7005283063000000000283,063	0.5%
Chinese	7005247403000000000247,403	0.4%
Other Asian (non-Chinese)	7005247644000000000247,644	0.4%
Black (others)	700497585000000000097,585	0.2%
Other	7005230615000000000230,615	0.4%

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_the_United_Kingdom

5. Australia is another of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. The University of Melbourne has a policy on Cultural Diversity. Read the two paragraphs and summarize them in your own words.

Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:

Varied	homogeneous	Increasingly	Decreasingly	Respecting
Strength	weakness	Improving	declining	Inclusive	narrow
Majority	minority	Tolerance	intolerance	Equality	inequality

Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:

Diverse	Different	Creative	Artistic	Uniqueness	Exclusivity
Dignity	Self-esteem	Integrated	Combined	Asset	Advantage
Global	Universal	Benefit	Profit