Portfolio Exercise #4 Everest team

Everest climbing team: Cultural Diversity

Watch the film and take notes to answer the following questions:

1.    List the team members by name, with their duties and country

Name                         Responsibility                     Country                     Skills

-   Jamling                              Climber                                Nepal                talented climber

-   Ed Viesturs                        Climber                                  USA                Experienced

-   Paula                                 Base camp manager USA               

-  Roger Bilham                     Scientist                                 England                     

-  Araceli Segarra                 Climber                          Spain/ Barcelona          Rock Climber

-  Sumia Suzuki                     Documentary                         Japan

- Chaygbau                            Cook                                       Nepal                          Charisma

 

2.    What were the qualities or skills of each member that benefitted the team?

Most of them had good skills to reach the summit. Jamling has a strong body which made him handle the oxygen level decrease quite well. Ed’s experience told them the right path.

  

3.    How was the Team helped by ‘cultural diversity’ to attain their goal (reach the summit of Everest)? 

Made them get along quite well with each other, it may have been a bit hard to communicate but their personalities went quite well with each other.

Portfolio Quiz #2

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 – multi
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 – Garden salad
5.       Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	False – Other countries

Define in your own words:

1.       “Melting Pot” : Mixing a variety of cultures and over time they will all be the same.

2.       “Salad Bowl”: Putting a variety of cultures and you can notice the difference

3.       “Assimilation”: A small group of people slowly adapting to each other

4.       “Acculturation”: Getting used to people around you, but holding to your culture

5.       “Enculturation”: The culture that reflects home country culture.

Complete the sentence with words from the text:

Acculturation often results in changes to Culture, Customs and Social, as well as changes in food, Clothing and Language.

Give a synonym:

varied	Different	respect	Honor	dominate	Control
multiple	Many	central	Major	interacting	Dealing
specific	Certain	represents	Shows	adopt	Take in

Give the opposite:

varied	Same	respect	Rude	gradually	Sharply
multiple	Single	common	Unique	dominant group	Minority
specific	Unspecific	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 humans in relation to origin distribution and classification.

2.       What do you understand by “socialization of children” Give an example the way and behavior children communicate with others,,   EX. Talking to adults.

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.”

Depending on how they are raised and treated they will face different futures

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.”

They may be born the same but different potentials on certain things

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.

Of course there’s a relation of culture to personality. Due to the way we were raised, I hate losing or giving up. That applies to other cultures as well. Such as japan, always striving to be the best in technology due to the way they grew up.

Portfolio Quiz #1

Quiz 1 - What is Cultural Diversity

Read the UNESCO report. True or False? If FALSE, write the TRUE answer.

1. At least 6000 different languages exist in the world.	True
2. Over 200 million people live outside the country where they were born.	False
3. One aspect of Human Rights is respecting different cultures.	True
4. Cultural Diversity means a lack of respect for freedom of thought.	False
5. Cultural Diversity can make a society stronger.	True

Vocabulary practice. Define in your own words:

1. Heterogeneous:   More than one thing that is mixed together

2. Plurality: Mainstream on doing something

3. Migration: people living in somewhere else than the place they were born in

4. Fundamental: a basic principle of something

5. Collective strength: a number of individuals working or acting together

Now read the rest of the article, and answer these questions by researching on the internet.

1. The article mentions food as an example of Cultural Diversity. Can you think of something else which could add interest and richness in a culturally diverse country?

The dress from other countries and our country

2. Name three ways in which people of different cultures can help a country to function in the new global economy.

1- Connecting with other countries

2- Hosting international events

3. From the internet, in relation to Cultural Diversity, find a picture and a definition of “Melting pot” and “Garden salad”.

4. Britain today is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. Look on the internet and find out which nationalities make up the “ethnic minority population of over 4 million”.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_the_United_Kingdom

According to the 2001 Census, the ethnic composition of the United Kingdom was:^[6]

Ethnic group	Population	Proportion of total UK population
White British	50,366,497	85.67%
White (other)	3,096,169	5.27%
Indian	1,053,411	1.8%
Pakistani	747,285	1.5%
White Irish	691,232	1.2%
Mixed	677,117	1.2%
Black Caribbean	565,876	1.0%
Black African	485,277	0.8%
Bangladeshi	283,063	0.5%
Chinese	247,403	0.4%
Other Asian (non-Chinese)	247,644	0.4%
Black (others)	97,585	0.2%
Other	230,615	0.4%

5. Australia is another of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. The University of Melbourne has a policy on Cultural Diversity. Read the two paragraphs and summarize them in your own words.

The university of Melbourne loves culture diversity and they use it and respect it between each other ( students , teachers )

Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:

Varied	Same	Increasingly	Decreasingly	Respecting	Rudeness
Strength	Weakness	Improving	Deteriorating	Inclusive	Exclusive
Majority	Minority	Tolerance	Intolerance	Equality	Inequality

Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:

Diverse	Variety	Creative	productive	Uniqueness	Individuality
Dignity	Self-esteem	Integrated	Untied	Asset	Advantage
Global	International	Benefit	advantage