CCU

 MID TEST

Pebri Yuni Br Hutabarat (1888203024)

Please answer the questions below briefly:

1. Give your own idea/opinions about:

a.  Culture   : is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, encompassing language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts.

b. Interculture : are people who have different cultural backgrounds. Intercultural usually in intercultural communication

c. Cross culture : is the intersection of two different cultures.

d. Multiculture  : is cultural or cultural diversity which emphasizes the acceptance of the diversity and variety of cultures

 

2. Give one example of cultural conflict and offer the solution for its adjustment!

Problem : many people do not understand about their own culture because of the influence of their different cultures.

Solution : the beginning of teaching about culture comes from the family. Children should be given an understanding of their own culture from an early age so that when they are in another environment, their own culture already exists in the child.

3. How do you define:

a. Mosaic         : is a society in which ethnic groups retain their separate identities but together from the larger community.

b. Melting pot    : is a term coined from a turn-of-the-century play by Israel Zangwill. Its use has historically expressed a monocultural goal to fuse and assimilate peoples from various newand old immigrant groups into a new common American society based ondominant Anglo Western cultural ideals, values, language and customs.

c. Stereotype    : is aset of exaggerated and inaccurate. Generalizations about a group or category of people that is either favorable or unfavorable.

d. Prejudice    : is an unfavorable attitude toward any cate-gory or group of people based on asimple or an elaborate series of negative traits assumed to be uniformly distributed among the people toward whom one is antagonistics