Portfolio exercise #4

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

-       Ed Vesters                     Team Leader                      U.S.A                   Climbing

-     Araceli seggara                 Climber                             Spain                  Climbing

-     Sumiyo                           Documentary                     Japan    recording the trip details

-     Roger Diham                     Scientist                          England                Geologist

-     Jamling Norgate                  Guide                              Nepal                  Climbing

-     Sharpa                             Deliver food                       Holland                Climbing

-     Paula                            Camp Manager                      U.S.A                 Climbing

 

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

They were mostly climbers and smart in planning the climbing map of the mountain. And the skills of each one make the group works together and each one complete the other one.

 

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

There are more then one country and everyone brought a help to the group they united and everyone used his culture to do his job and they combined each culture to make it to the top and survive helped each-other and did a great job that's how they combined there culture they achieved there goal on reaching the top of the mountain.

Portfolio 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.	False / more set 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”	False / salad bowl
5.       Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	False / other countries

Define in your own words:

1.       “Melting Pot” : different things become similar

2.       “Salad Bowl” : many things mixed together

3.       “Assimilation” : people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family.

4.       “Acculturation” : he adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture.

5.       “Enculturation” :

The gradual acquisition of the characteristics and norms of a culture or group.

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 way to act.

Give a synonym:

varied	different	respect	appreciation	dominate	control
multiple	mixed	central	basic	interacting	collaborate
specific	definite	represents	show	adopt	use

Give the opposite:

varied	Like	respect	disregard	gradually	Fastly
multiple	similar	common	specific	dominant group	Over power
specific	common	contrasted with	Compared to	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 study of people.

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

is the way how the children learn how to communicate or act by watching there parents of brothers.

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.” Different socializations practices

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.” I agree with that argument.

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.

My personality is affected by my culture in my country and I act as same as most of the people of my country. There is many differences between our personality in our society and the other societies .

Portfolio exercise #2

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 / 175 million
3. One aspect of Human Rights is respecting different cultures.	True
4. Cultural Diversity means a lack of respect for freedom of thought.	False / is the quality of diverse cultural
5. Cultural Diversity can make a society stronger.	True

Vocabulary practice. Define in your own words:

1. Heterogeneous: several things mixed together

2. Plurality: multitude in doing something.

3. Migration: is to move from your born country to another country to live there.

4. Fundamental: acting or relating to the essential nature of something or the crucial point about an issue.

5. Collective strength: is the power of something working together for one goal.

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?

Give the international architectural companies the green light to build the country.

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

-  how to communicate with other cultures.

- send mans to study business abroad.

- hosting famous singers around the world

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

Melting pot:

Something where different people, styles, theories, etc., are mixed  together.

Garden salad: A garden salad or tossed

salad is a salad consisting mostly of fresh vegetables.

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”.

- Indians. – Pakistanis. – Irish. – African. – Chinese. – Bangladeshi.

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.

Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:

Varied	like	Increasingly	Decreasingly	Respecting	Disregard
Strength	Powerlessness	Improving	Retreat	Inclusive	Exclusives
Majority	Minority	Tolerance	Intolerance	Equality	Unlike

Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:

Diverse	several	Creative	originative	Uniqueness	singularity
Dignity	respect	Integrated	inserted	Asset	savings
Global	international	Benefit	advantage