Quiz 2 – What are Multiculturalism, Assimilation and Acculturation?

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 – describe as a society with a different set of values
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 – with salad bowl
5.       Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	False – that means enculturation

Define in your own words:

1.       “Melting Pot” :a place where different types of people live together and gradually create one community .

                              2.       “Salad Bowl” : combine of people  living with each other but with unlike believes. 

                          3. Assimilation: how gradually adopt patterns of the dominate culture . 

                        4.       “Acculturation: cultural modification of an individual, group, or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture.

5.       “Enculturation: the process by which an individual learns the traditional content of a culture and assimilates its practices and values. 

Complete the sentence with words from the text:

Acculturation often results in changes to culture and customs  , as well as changes in food, clothes  and language .

Give a synonym:

varied	Diverse	respect	honor	dominate	Control
multiple	Various	central	major	interacting	Reacting
specific	Particular	represents	Characterize	adopt	Accept

Give the opposite:

varied	Same	respect	Disrespect	gradually	Quickly
multiple	Single	common	Rare	dominant group	Recessive
specific	General	contrasted with	Conforming	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 

process of learning about people, for example: culture , tradition , the way of person dress in his daily life .

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

the way of cheldren behave in his daily life is revers of what the parent educete the. for example : when the children respect there teachers.      

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.

The British parent are much different than Pakistani parent about crating the personality of the children. Ex :  The British's parents learn there children about lot of cultures and values but on other hand the Pakistani parent learn them children only one of each.      

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.

My personality comes from my father and my grandfather when i was child i learn from them , after that comes my friends who affects a lot about my personality. For example : there are proverb in our culture says "You knows the personality of person from there family"