portfolio assignment #4 - Cultural Diversity

Quiz – 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 – A Multicultural Society is a society with a variety 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”	True & False
5.       Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	False – Learning another culture and adding them is ‘Acculturation’.

Define in your own words:

1.       “Melting Pot”:  blending of cultures, or different cultures in a society

2.       “Salad Bowl”: different cultures are mixed together, but each have their uniqueness.

3.       “Assimilation”: mixed together to be similar.

4.       “Acculturation”: adding different cultures but stay different.

5.       “Enculturation”: having a second culture as first culture from birth.

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, _____Language______ and _______Clothing_______.

Give a synonym:

varied	diverse	respect	honor/esteem	dominate	control
multiple	numerous/several	central	middle/centered/median	interacting	communicate/act together
specific	particular	represents	means/stands for	adopt	select/accept

Give the opposite:

varied	unvaried/homogeneous	respect	disrespect	gradually	rapidly
multiple	few	common	rare	dominant group	minority group
specific	general	contrasted with	similar to	adopt	reject