Portfolio - Exercise#4

Everest climbing team

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
- Sumyo Suzuki	Expedition and Documentary	Japan	photographing
- Ed Viesters	Leader	USA	Expert climber
- Chyangba	Cook	China	Cooking
- Aeaceli Segarra	Climber	Spain-Barcelona	climber
- Roger Bilham	Scientist	England	Scientist/climber
- Paula	Base camp manager	USA	climber
- Jamling	Climber	Nepal	climber

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

Each member in the team have a unique skill that benefits the team. For example, Sumyo Suzuki is   photographer and he is responsible for the Documentation in the climbing trip. Also, Chynagba is a cooker in the camp in which he is providing a food for the team. And the Scientist Roger Bilham who spend a time for making some studies while camping on Everest summit. As well, every team have to have a leader to be successful, and the leader of the team was Ed Visters.

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

Many of the Team members are from different countries and from different cultures, but many things helped them to success reaching to the Everest summit like respect of each other, team working and discipline in doing the their duties

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, with muliple set of values
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, represented by assimilation
Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	False, learn about countries

 

 

Define in your own words:

1.“Melting Pot”: a place were everyone many cultures gather to have one culture.

2.“Salad Bowl”: different types of people live together with respect of everyone's culture.

3.“Assimilation”:a place where people inhabit with new culture and forget their culture.

4.“Acculturation”: the process when people gain another culture.

5.“Enculturation”: the process of learning the content of traditional 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	Diverse	Respect	regard	dominate	Control
multiple	Many	Central	Crucial	Interacting	Interrelating
specific	particular	represents	Signifies	Adopt	Accept

 

Give the opposite:

Varied	standardized	Respect	Disrespect	Gradually	Rapidly
Multiple	Few	Common	Refind	Dominant group	Weak group
specific	vague	Contrasted with	Agreed	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.

              The study of the human’s origin, behavior, social, and physical cultural development.

         2. Define “movement” in this context:

    It means the field of learning.

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

    I believe that all adults have the same behavior. but adults need to get with the children and also treat them as adults

         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.”

   

         5. 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.”

    

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.

profolio Exercise#2

profolio #2

Quiz 1:What is culture diversity?

Quiz - What is Cultural Diversity?

Quiz – 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.	Around 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.	have respect for different ways of thinking
5. Cultural Diversity can make a society stronger.	TRUE

Vocabulary practice; Define in your own words:

1. Heterogeneous: Varied – Diverse in character or a content- Various or mixed of anything

2. Plurality: A large number of people 

3. Migration: A movementof persons from one country to another

4. Fundamental: Basic or central part of something

5. Collective strength: A group of people come together with the same idea or 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?

v Tradition and religion

v Art of living

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

vLanguage skills v New ways of thinking

v Negotiating skills

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

“Melting pot”

v A country, locality, or situation in which a blending of races,peoples, or cultures is taking place

v An area in which many races, ideas, etc., are mixed

o Altered cultures meet up in one place and be a one certain culture

“Garden salad”

v A country made up of a complex array of distinct cultures that are blended into a unique

o Different cultures pooled to make one unique culture

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”.

v Indian

v Dark Africans

v Pakistan

v Bangladesh

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.

vUniversity of Melbourne is one of culturally diverse University where students and staff aim for culturally inclusive behavior and activities, where differences are valued and explored, and where students and staff actively seek to learn from other cultures. One of the greatest benefits that University of Melbourne provides is opportunity to work in a culturally rich environment.

Vocabulary practice, Give the opposite:

Varied	homogeneous	Increasingly	decreasingly	Respecting	disrespecting
Strength	weakness	Improving	disimprove	Inclusive	exclusive
Majority	minority	Tolerance	Intolerance	Equality	inequality

Vocabulary practice, Give a synonym:

Diverse	Varied	Creative	Innovative	Uniqueness	Independence
Dignity	Nobility	Integrated	United	Asset	Property
Global	Universal	Benefit	Advantage