Quiz 2 – What are Multiculturalism, Assimilation and Acculturation? Exercise#3

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.	F. A multicultural society is a society made up of many different cultures.
2.A “salad bowl” represents varied and separate cultures.	T
3.One aspect of Multiculturalism is respecting different cultures.	T
4.Cultural Diversity can be represented by a “melting pot”	F. Cultural diversity is best represented by the “salad bowl”.
5.Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	F. Acculturation means to learn about the culture of your adopted country

Define in your own words:

1.       “Melting Pot”: the mixture of many different cutlers in one place. 

2.       “Salad Bowl”: the idea of living together but stay separate and unique in there own way.

3.       “Assimilation”: to become a part of body

4.       “Acculturation”: the acceptation and learning about new cultures.

5.       “Enculturation”: to learn about the birth countries 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, clothing and  language.

Give a synonym:

varied	assorted	respect	honor	dominate	command
multiple	varied	central	main	interacting	communicating
specific	certain	represents	display	adopt	accept

Give the opposite:

varied	single	respect	disrespect	gradually	immediately
multiple	singular	common	unique	dominant group	minority
specific	general	contrasted with	blended	adopt	igonre

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. 

 -the study of human culture and history. 

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

the way that the next generation will be raised depends on the country culture. 

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.” 

- in the emirate society the family raise there children and uses some methods such as using violent in some ways, in the western society they might use grounding as a method. 

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 

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. 

- i see that my culture affected me in a way that made me care about other people needs no matter what was the age or race or colour , in the end we are all human.