Quiz – What are Multiculturalism, Assimilation and Acculturation? Personal Reflection #3

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, culture in school
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, Salad Bowl
5.       Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	False, Learning the culture of your new country

Define in your own words:

1.       “Melting Pot” Different people from different countries get together in one country and become one culture.

2.       “Salad Bowl” Different cultures mixed together.

3.       “Assimilation” Everything mixed up becoming the same.

4.       “Acculturation” cultural assimilation is a socio-political reaction to demographic multiculturalism that supports the adjustment of cultural and ethnic sections into the main culture.

5.       “Enculturation” Is used to describe the process of first culture learning.

Complete the sentence with words from the text:

Acculturation often results in changes to Culture, Customs and institution as well as changes in food, Clothing and language.

Give a synonym:

varied	Diverse	respect	Esteem	dominate	Control
multiple	Many	central	Vital	interacting	Relating
specific	Exact	represents	Signifies	adopt	Assume

varied	homogeneous	respect	disrespect	gradually	rapidly
multiple	few	common	rare	dominant group	minority
specific	general	contrasted with	similar 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 the study of thenature and essence of humankind.

2.       Define “movement” in this context

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

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.”
answer : (food) (clothing) ( language ) ( marriage ) and religion

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.”

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.
answer : (my culture is my behavior and personality we was taught in our culture that involves our personality as well)