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  multiple set 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 because it represented as salad bowl
5.       Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	False because it means that learning the culture of the host country

Define in your own words:

1.       “Melting Pot”: is to mix all the ethnic group in a country under the “citizenship”

2.       “Salad Bowl”: it`s to have every ethnic group the privacy of their culture.

3.       “Assimilation” : get the new culture and forget the original culture .

4.       “Acculturation” is the to get the culture of the host country with keeping the original culture

5.       “Enculturation”: learning the birth culture .

Complete the sentence with words from the text:

Acculturation often results in changes to culture, customs, and social institutions. Noticeable group level effects of acculturation often include changes in food, clothing, and language.

Give a synonym:

varied	Many	respect	esteem	dominate	rule
·         multiple	manifold	central	dominant	interacting	interrelating
specific	exact	represents	signifies	adopt	accept

Give the opposite:

varied	soli	respect	disrespect	gradually	rapidly
multiple	General	common	uncommon	dominant group	Weak group
specific	unspecific	contrasted with	Compare 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

      It’s a part of science that studies the human and how they live and their culture and the origin of the nations.

           2- Define “movement” in this context

Movement is the changes of personality by years that effect on the general culture

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

Socialization of children is to behave the child socially to help him to understand the community

Example: at schools, home and some associations that specially improve the socialization of children.

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.”

1 -Childrearing in Arabian Peninsula in the past was took the child from his family to the desert and tried to made him stronger by let him crying all the time until stopped, then they gave him milk.

2 – Childrearing in America in these days is to help the child to understand everything around him and be able to deal with the problems.

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 this opinion because yes every society has different ways to childrearing and depends on how they will give the child the best rearing.

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.

Yes , I see a link between the culture and my personality. For example I`m uptight and moody a lot so I think my culture has an effect on me, because Arabs and who live in the Mediterranean cost are famous in moody and uptight,

In another way, Japanese are famous in calm because of their culture.