What are Multiculturalism- Portfolio Exercise #4

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.	F-it can be described
2.       A “salad bowl” represents varied and separate cultures.	T
3.       One aspect of Multiculturalism is respecting different cultures.	T
4.       Cultural Diversity can be represented by a “melting pot”	T
5.       Acculturation means learning the culture of your birth country.	F-Second culture with the original culture

Define in your own words:


1. “Melting Pot”: you cant know the different between culture


2. “Salad Bowl” : see the different between culture


3. “Assimilation” : Mixing culture together


4. “Acculturation” : Add culture


5. “Enculturation” : Add the second culture to be the original culture

Complete the sentence with words from the text:

Acculturation often results in changes to culture, customs and institution, as well as changes in food,clothing and language.

Give a synonym:

varied	change	respect	reverence	dominate	control
multiple	several	central	fundamental	interacting	reacting
specific	precise	represents	appears	adopt	follow

Give the opposite:

varied	limited	respect	disrespect	gradually	rapidly
multiple	single	common	rare	dominant group	Minority group
specific	diverse	contrasted with	Complies with	adopt	reject