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.