Portfolio Exercise #3

3. Quiz 2 – Portfolio Exercise #3

What are Multiculturalism, Assimilation and Acculturation?

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

A Multicultural society can be described as a society with a single set of values.	False, Multiple
A “salad bowl” represents varied and separate cultures.	True
One aspect of Multiculturalism is respecting different cultures.	True
Cultural Diversity can be represented by a “melting pot”	False, assimilation
Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	False, host country

Define in your own words:

1.       “Melting Pot”: different people live together.

2.       “Salad Bowl”: different people with a different cultures live together.

3.       “Assimilation”: when people lose their culture and get another one.

4.       “Acculturation”: the process by which a human being acquires the cultural of a particular society.

5.       “Enculturation”: the process which an individual learns the traditional content of clothing.

Complete the sentence with words from the text:

Acculturation often results in changes to __________culture__________, _________customs______________and ______social institutions_____________________________, as well as changes in food, _________clothing___________ and ___________language_______________________.

Give a synonym:

Varied	Various	Respect	regard	dominate	Command
multiple	Manifold	Central	Middle	Interacting	Act reciprocally
specific	particular	represents	Appointed to	Adopt	Accept

Give the opposite:

Varied	same	Respect	Disrespect	Gradually	Suddnely
Multiple	Single	Common	Unfamiliar	Dominant group	Weak
specific	General	Contrasted with	Compared with	Adopt	disagree

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. The specific study of the origin, behavior and the physical, social cultural development of humans.

2.                 Define “movement” in this context:

It is the area where people study and learn.

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

People are same, but children in different societies have difference in personalities, like example the way feeding.

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 will learn by seeing not hearing, the must be punished on bad behaviors cause of not they be badly behave and won’t listen to anyone. Children must not be spoiled.

5.                 Read this sentence again and say to what extent you agree: “all humans are the same when born, but childrearing in different society’s cause’s deviations in behavior and personalities from each other.”  

                                                          

I agree with this sentence because when children born they don’t know anything, they learn from their parents and know the culture, language and the religion.

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.

My personality is affected by my culture, when I talk and my life style is similar that’s called learning by doing. So, the personality depends on how do you live , communicate with others , here in the UAE we don’t shake hands from when we was child we make the nose “Salam” that’s not what we should to do , this is a thing that we learn by doing and see others do it.