Quiz 1

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: it is 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 or different cultures
5. Cultural Diversity can make a society stronger.	True

Vocabulary practice. Define in your own words:

1. Heterogeneous: a group of people lives and works together.

2. Plurality: more than one group of people lives and works together.

3. Migration: travel from his country to another country.

4. Fundamental: the human nature or the main thing of the person.

5. Collective strength: a power of a group people with a cultural diversity.

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?

1-Sport   2-Education    3-Internatinal company

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

1-Connection   2-Make a convention   3-Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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

The melting pot: is a metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous

A garden salad (also green 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”.

Asian

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 Cultural Diversity Policy includes a commitment to ‘developing and disseminating information in a format which is coherent, easily accessible and appropriate to the needs of the whole University community

Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:

Varied	Homogeneous	Increasingly	Diminishing	Respecting	disrespect
Strength	Weakness	Improving	Retrograde	Inclusive	Narrow
Majority	Minority	Tolerance	Intolerance	Equality	Inequality

Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:

Diverse	Different	Creative	Imaginative	Uniqueness	Individuality
Dignity	Self-respect	Integrated	Combined	Asset	Strength
Global	Universal	Benefit	Profit