Week 2 Lesson 2 + Week 3 Lesson 1 What is Cultural Diversity Quiz

Quiz – What is Cultural Diversity?

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

At least 6000 different languages exist in the world.	True
Over 200 million people live outside the country where they were born.	False , it is around 175 million
One aspect of Human Rights is respecting different cultures.	True
Cultural Diversity means a lack of respect for freedom of thought.	False ,  respecting  other people culture
Cultural Diversity can make a society stronger.	True

Vocabulary practice. Define in your own words:

• Heterogeneous: Mixed together

• Plurality: many , several

• Migration: people leave the country and live in another country

• Fundamental: basic human rights

• Collective strength: combined force , plural power , group strength

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

• 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?

Cloths , languages , traditions , celebrations , festivals

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

• Bringing language skills

• New way of thinking

• Creative solution of difficult problems

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

Melting pot: A pot can which metals and other substance are melted and fused.

Garden salad: Every body keeps their own nationalities.

• 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”.

Indian was the largest minority and then Pakistan , Black Caribbean , Black Africans and Bangladeshis.

• 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 word.

The university of Melbourne’s cultural diversity policy sure that includes many different things based on their rules and some examples are ages , gender , class ect… The cultural diversity of Melbourne’s university is a power to value more opinions and interests to support all stuff and students to courage the appreciation of their own cultures.

Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:

Varied	Exciting	Increasingly	Decreasingly	Respecting	Disrespecting
Strength	Weakness	Improving	Getting worse	Inclusive	Shutting out
Majority	minority	Tolerance	Intolerance	Equality	Inequality

Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:

Diverse	Several	Creative	Inventive	Uniqueness	Individually
Dignity	Respect	Integrated	Combined	Asset	Benefits
Global	International	Benefit	Advantage	Harmony	Agreement