Portfolio Exercise #2 Quiz 1 - What is Cultural Diversity

Quiz 1 - What is Cultural Diversity

Portfolio Exercise #2

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

Vocabulary practice. Define in your own words:

1. Heterogeneous: It means mixture, such as culturally diverse places consider the population to be heterogeneous rather than homogenous.

2. Plurality: A large number of people or things and that the fact of being plural.

3. Migration:  When people move from a country to another for financial or cultural reasons.

4. Fundamental: Is the core of a principal or of central importance.

5. Collective strength:  It’s the strength when the collection of different elements are unified into a much stronger state.

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? I would say art would have an impact on the richness and interest of a culturally diverse country.

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

They can provide investments, skills, and ideas.

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

Melting pot are when the ingredients infuse together to make something new, where as the garden salad has the elements mixed and visibly seen.

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”.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_the_United_Kingdom

Indian, Pakistani, Black Caribbean, and white Irish.

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.

They claim that cultural diversity is important for strength and an asset.

Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:

Varied	Uniform	Increasingly	Decreasingly	Respecting	Disrespecting
Strength	Weak	Improving	worsen	Inclusive	Exclusive
Majority	Minority	Tolerance	Intolerance	Equality	Inequality

Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:

Diverse	Varied	Creative	Innovative	Uniqueness	oneness
Dignity	Honor	Integrated	Unified	Asset	Benefit
Global	Universal	Benefit	Gain