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.

week 4 - Reflective task 2 (What are the Challenges and Benefits of cultural diversity)

LSS 2053 Cultural Diversity
Reflective Task 2
Homework for weeks 3 and 4 – Due date: 7 October 2012
What are the Challenges and Benefits of Cultural Diversity?
(Course Goal 1 – Sub-outcome 4: Describe the Challenges and Benefits of Diversity)                  

                               The Challenges and Benefits of Cultural Diversity 

                  Cultural diversity is the quality of diverse or different cultures. There are many challenges and benefits of cultural diversity between countries. In this essay I’m going to discuss this controversial issue and I will suggest some positive and negative aspects of this issue.

                   There are many challenges that can affect cultural diversity. First of all, the difficulties in dealing and understanding between different countries, this can be the language that is used between them. As consequence, each country has their own language that they use while communicating with each other. Moreover, it can be caused in their lifestyle which includes type of food, cloth and religion. Furthermore, the most important reason can be the difference in nationalities which can be lead of having crimes, because the difference in thinking. India is one of the countries that can be many crimes happen, because of people thoughts.

On the other hand, there are many benefits.  Most of the religions in the cultures. People share same believes which can be confidence, loyalty and trust.

                    In conclusion, cultural diversity is a major concern in modern society, and it negatively impacts people’s lives. In my opinion, Cultural diversity must have more benefits than challenges because we need to be positive thinking more than thinking in a negative way.

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

People Watching - Reflective task 1

People Watching 

 

Last weekend I went to Marina Mall “Biella” for dinner with my friends.

·         I saw people with different ages and nationalities all around the restaurant having dinner and enjoying their meals at the restaurant

·         I saw people with different ages and nationalities; which can be guessed from their skin color, language and their dress-code

·         Some people were having family gathering, where you can see the parents and their children around the table having dinner and sharing family stories and talks, while others were having business dinner, where they showed up wearing suites and having laptops and some papers on the table. Else were so casual, where you can easily guess they are friends gathering just like us

·         Most people around the restaurant were interacting in a causal way with each other, and formal with the restaurant’s staff, some people were having difficulties with the waitresses because of the language difference between them. And some were enjoying staring at other people with different cultures and nationalities.

·         As mentioned above, people behaviors were different depends on their cultural and the reason why they visited the restaurant, the businessmen were so professional and having official talks, while the family and friends looked so comfy and having casual talks.