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, Multiple
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, assimilation.
5. Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	False, host country.

Define in your own words:

1. “Melting Pot”: people forget their culture, and adapting to the new one.

2. “Salad Bowl”: different people from different cultures live in the same area.

3. “Assimilation”: people forget their culture, and adapt to the new one.

4. “Acculturation”: learning the culture of the host country.

5. “Enculturation”: learning the culture of your country.

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	Different	respect	Treat nicely	dominate	Being control
multiple	Many	central	Main	interacting	reflective
specific	Curtin	represents	show	adopt	Take on

Give the opposite:

varied	Similar	respect	Disrespect	gradually	Suddenly
multiple	Single	common	Uncommon	dominant group	Minority group
specific	General	contrasted with	Compared with	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: Study of human behavior from the point view of cultural Diversity.

2. Define “movement” in this context: area of study.

3. What do you understand by “socialization of children” Give an example: all humans are the same, but childrearing in different societies causes difference in behavior and personalities, for example feeding, talking, and toilet training.

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.”

- “Children should be seen and not heard”.

- “Spare the rod and spoil the child”.

- If you don’t punish him, he will be spoilt or badly behaved.

And that is the same in UAE, also depending on the personality of the parents.

 

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.”

- I agree to all of this sentence, because our profit Mohamed said that human born with “ Fitra “ and their mother and father make him or her as they are.

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.

I saw that my personality effected by my cultural in something's, for example, how to talk with people, I should respect other people and how. So, the personality depend on how did you grow up with and how did you live, for example, in America they work very hard because they see their families and the whole society do it from beginning life.