Quiz - 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 - 175million
3.       One aspect of Human Rights is respecting different cultures.	True
4.       Cultural Diversity means a lack of respect for freedom of thought.	False – means respect
5.       Cultural Diversity can make a society stronger.	True

Vocabulary practice. Define in your own words:

1.       Heterogeneous : A mixture that is not uniform in its composition; the components can be visibly distinguished

2.       Plurality : majority

3.       Migration : Moving From your country to author country

4.       Fundamental : Basic

5.       Collective strength : Group

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?

Technology – Cloths

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

Bring language Skills – New ways of thinking – Creative solutions

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

Melting pot: a place where a variety of races, cultures, or individuals assimilate into a cohesive whole.

Garden Salad : concept suggests that the integration of the many different cultures

1.       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”.

Arabs – Indian – Africans – Pakistanis.

Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:

Varied	Same	Increasingly	decreasingly	Respecting	disrespecting
Strength	weakness	Improving	worsen	Inclusive	exclusive
Majority	minority	Tolerance	intolerance	Equality	inequality

Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:

Diverse	Varid	Creative	Inventive	Uniqueness	special
Dignity	respect	Integrated	united	Asset	benefit
Global	World wide	Benefit	advantage	Harmony	peace