Exercise # 3

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
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”	F
5.       Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	F

Define in your own words:

1.       “Melting Pot”: immigrant loose the birth identity

2.       “Salad Bowl”: all leaving together in peace and keeping there identity

3.       “Assimilation”: capacity

4.       “Acculturation”: sheering culture

5.       “Enculturation”: a process

Complete the sentence with words from the text:

Acculturation often results in changes to __culture__, __customs__and __social institution__, as well as changes in food, _clothing_ and _language_.

Give a synonym:

varied	different	respect	veneration	dominate	control
multiple	collective	central	basic	interacting	relating
specific	exact	represents	signifies	adopt	accept

Give the opposite:

varied	Single	respect	Disrespect	gradually	Suddenly
multiple	Few	common	Private	dominant group	Minor group
specific	Vague	contrasted with	agreed with	adopt	frosake

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 human behavior from the point view of cultural diversity.

2.       What do you understand by “socialization of children” Give an example: Teaching them how to eat, respect other people, how to talk, and how to deal with other people.

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.”

In other societies: (children should be seen and not heard) and (spare the rod and spoil the children) and that means if you don’t punish him, he will be spoilt or badly behaved. In our society:  they let them depend in themselves and give them the chance to give their opinions, and if they were bad sometimes parents use beating but they don’t beat them hard. 

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.”

Yes I agree with it because when the children come to life they are new  and we teach them good or bad behaviors. Also every baby in the world is same but when we teach them then there will be a difference between them, someone become good and someone become bad.

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.

Our culture reflect on our personality and shape it, because, our society is an Islamic society and its conservative society, our ladies must cover their faces, and they cannot deal a lot with strange men. Also they can't hand shaking with them. In addition Islamic society teaches us to be generous and don’t lie to each other. Also it prevents bad habits such as drinking alcohol, and we all try to do good things like our profit Mohamed tell us to do. And that’s reflecting on our behaviors and.