TOPIC 8 MID SMESTER TEST (CROSS CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING)

 Please answer the questions below briefly:

1. give your own idea/opinions about :

a.culture 

b.interculture

c.cross culture

d.multiculture

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

3. how do you define :

a.mosaic

b.melting pot

c.stereotype

d.prejudice

ANSWER  

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

b.  Intercultural is used to describe cultures meeting, clashing, and making adjustments.  According to the oxford dictionary intercultural is defined as “taking place between cultures, or derived from different cultures.”

c.  cross-cultural means “dealing with or offering comparison between two or more different cultures or cultural areas.” 

d. Multicultural seems like a straightforward word, as it implies having to do with multiple cultures.  Unfortunately, its not quite that simple either.  The oxford Dictionary, defines it: “for or including people of several different races, religions, languages, and traditions.” 

2. An example of a cultural conflict is the Aceh vs Java conflict

The cause of the conflict between the two tribes was also motivated by cultural differences between the two. Coupled with the causes, including the following:

Dutch and Javanese attack Aceh,

The promise of the Javanese to the Acehnese has been broken,

kish daud bereud who are stressed too

Aceh was made DOM by President Soeharto.

and the solution is to make peace by making a covenant.

3. a. mosaic is presented as a framework to identify demographic, geographic, and associative features underlying culture. 

b. The melting pot is a monocultural metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements "melting together" with a common culture; an alternative being a homogeneous society becoming more heterogeneous through the influx of foreign elements with different cultural backgrounds, possessing the potential to create disharmony within the previous culture. 

c. Stereos and tūpos, meaning rigid and trace respectively. Social psychologists, psychiatrists used a similar term, stereotypy or stereotypie, in a metaphorical way. For them, the term described the frequent and almost mechanical repetition of the same gesture, posture or speech common in such disorders as dementia praecox.

d. Prejudice, like stereotypes, can be either positive or negative although it is generally referred to as the unfair, biased or intolerant attitudes or opinions towards another person or group simply because they belong to a specific religion, race, nationality or another group