week 4 Quiz (What are Multiculturalism , Assimilation & Acculturation)

Quiz – What are Multiculturalism, Assimilation and Acculturation?

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

A Multicultural society can be described as a society with a single set of values.	False, it contains multiple cultures
A “salad bowl” represents varied and separate cultures.	True
One aspect of Multiculturalism is respecting different cultures.	True
Cultural Diversity can be represented by a “melting pot”	False, because in melting pot they are all in one nationalities and one culture
Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	False, Learning about different cultures and to be a part of you

Define in your own words:

· “Melting Pot”: Forgetting your old culture and totally adapting to the new one.

· “Salad Bowl”: People live in new country and keep their tradition

· “Assimilation”: Forgetting your old culture and totally adapting to the new one.

· “Acculturation”: process of learning a culture of a host country

· “Enculturation”: Process of learning a culture of birth country

Complete the sentence with words from the text:

Acculturation often results in changes to culture, custom and social institution, as well as changes in food, clothing and language.

Give a synonym:

varied	Different	respect	Honor	dominate	Control
multiple	Many	central	Main	interacting	Reactive
specific	Exact	represents	Shows	adopt	Take on

Give the opposite:

varied	Same	respect	Disrespect	gradually	Suddenly
multiple	Single	common	Uncommon	dominant group	Minority group
specific	Unspecific	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:

1.       - Define “Anthropology” in your own words: Study of human behavior from the point view of cultural Diversity.

2.       Define “movement” in this context: area of study.

3.       What do you understand by “socialization of children” Give an example:

all humans are the same when born, but childrearing in different societies causes deviations in behavior and personalities from each other, for example feeding, talking, and toilet training.

4.       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.”  

-          “Children should be seen and not heard”.

-          “Spare the rod and spoil the child”.

-          If you don’t punish him, he will be spoilt or badly behaved.

And that is the same in UAE, also depending on how the parents treat their children.

5.       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 to all of this sentence, because our profit Mohamed said that human born with “ Fitra “ and their mother and father make him or her as they are.

6.       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.

Yes, i can see there is a link between the culture and my personality because in our culture there is a similarity in treatments when the parents treat their childern. In other societies some personalities cannot be the same because it depends on the culture of their country and how they treated for example how the mothers feed their childern and when the father get mad when they've done somthing wrong by talking to them or beatin in a bad way.