Portfolio Excursie #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.	False
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
5.       Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	False

Define in your own words:

1. “Melting Pot” Different groups of people adapt to the new country culture with their new nationality.

2.       “Salad Bowl” Different group of people in a different culture but they don’t adapt to the new culture.

3.       “Assimilation” Similar

4.       “Acculturation” Take part of new culture they like while keeping their own culture.

5.       “Enculturation” the process by which people learn the requirements of they’re surrounding culture and acquire values and behaviors appropriate or necessary in that 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 as well as changes in food clothing, and language. At the individual level, differences in the way individuals acculturate have been shown to be associated not just with changes in daily behavior, but with numerous measures of psychological and physical well-being .

Give a synonym:

Varied	Diverse	Respect	Admiration	Dominate	Influence,
Multiple	Numerous	Central	Middle	Interacting	To mix together
specific	Particular	Represents	To be entitled or appointed	adopt	To follow

Give the opposite:

varied	Different	respect	Criticism	gradually	Suudenly
multiple	Same	common	Abnormal	dominant group	Auxiliary
specific	Ambiguous	contrasted with	Harmonize	adopt	deny

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 the study of humankind, past and present that draws and builds upon knowledge from social and biological sciences.

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

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