Exercise 3

Quiz 2 – 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.	F, the avoid presenting any specific ethnic, religious, or cultural community value as central.
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”	T
5.       Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	F. It is getting used to the way people are, but not become just like everyone else.

Define in your own words:

1.       “Melting Pot” place where many types of people live together and create a new communication.

2.       “Salad Bowl”  Plate of salad which include verity  of vegetables.

3.       “Assimilation” to be knowing.

4.       “Acculturation” learn and share about other cultural.

5.       “Enculturation” means learning about your first cultural.

Complete the sentence with words from the text:

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

Give a synonym:

varied	several	respect	assessment	dominate	control
multiple	various	central	focal	interacting	reactive
specific	particular	represents	appear	adopt	espouse

Give the opposite:

varied	specific	respect	contempt	gradually	arrive
multiple	particular	common	uncommon	dominant group	Humble group
specific	diverse	contrasted with	Complies with	adopt	leave alone

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

Means, study and learn about humans.

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

Is a place where you can find scientist lean about children’s behavior in about one to two years, and teach them about  social communication .

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.”

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.”

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.