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.