Quiz – What are Multiculturalism, Assimilation and Acculturation?

Quiz – 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 – described as a society with a multiple  sets of values
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 – by a salad bowl
5.       Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	False – learning the culture of host culture

 

Define in your own words:

1.       “Melting Pot”    a country where mixes of races, peoples, and cultures

2.       “Salad Bowl” leaving together in the same country with keeping your identity.

3.       “Assimilation” observing the new culture and forgetting the original one. 

4.       “Acculturation”  a learning of a new culture

5.       “Enculturation” learning different culture 

Complete the sentence with words from the text:

Acculturation often results in changes to culture, customs and social institutions, as well as changes in food, clothes and language.

Give a synonym:

varied	Many	respect	Esteem	dominate	rule
multiple	Manifold	central	Dominate	interacting	cooperating
specific	Exact	represents	Signifies	adopt	assume

 

Give the opposite:

varied	Sole	respect	Disrespect	gradually	Suddenly
multiple	General	common	Rear	dominant group	Minority group
specific	Unspecific	contrasted with	Compared to	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

-          Is a science that studies the properties of human nature and how to cope in the new environment

2.       Define “movement” in this context

-          movement is the changes of personality by years that effect on the culture

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

-          Is that the children behave the social and understand how to community with the others.

-          Exampels: School and home

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.”

-          Childrearing in Middle East in the past all the fathers when they get a baby they took him to the desert to learn and to be strong.

-          Child Rearing in europe depend on study and to let the baby have fun and respect

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 because every society has different way to childrearing  and different thinks and different goals.

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 see a link between the culture and my personality. For example am active and sometimes moody and almost of the people in my culture are the same.

And in Japanese society they Respect every one because of their culture.