- Portfolio Exercise #2 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.	False/ 175 million people live outside the country where they were born
3.       One aspect of Human Rights is respecting different cultures.	True
4.       Cultural Diversity means a lack of respect for freedom of thought.	False/ respecting the freedom of thought
5.       Cultural Diversity can make a society stronger.	True

Vocabulary practice. Define in your own words:

1.       Heterogeneous :  things that are mixed together but different from each other .

2.       Plurality: majority.

3.       Migration: moving from place to another for living.

4.       Fundamental: primary , essential.

5.       Collective strength: combined strength / strength in numbers

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?

History – Language  -  food

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

 

-Negotiating  / Trading

-learning different languages/ knowledge

-Creative solutions for problems

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

Melting pot: people from different places with different culture lives together  as one and create a new culture which is stronger than the past one.

Garden salad: different culture mixed together

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”.

 White (others= 3,096,169

Indians =1,053,411

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.

The university respects and supports the cultural diversity and wants to create an environment that helps to make the people exchange their tradition and culture together.

Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:

Varied	Homogeneous	Increasingly	Decreasingly	Respecting	Disrespecting
Strength	Weakness	Improving	Worsening	Inclusive	Exclusive/Narrow
Majority	Minority	Tolerance	Intolerance	Equality	Difference/Unfairness

Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:

Diverse	Mixed/varied	Creative	clever	Uniqueness	Singleness/Unlikeness
Dignity	Self-respect/Gravitas	Integrated	Union/combined	Asset	Aid /skill
Global	Worldwide / international	Benefit	Asset/profit	Harmony	Unity /agreement