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.
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True
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2. Over 200 million people live outside the country where they were born.
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False – 175 million
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3. One aspect of Human Rights is respecting different cultures.
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True
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4. Cultural Diversity means a lack of respect for freedom of thought.
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False – Respect and fundamental freedoms
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5. Cultural Diversity can make a society stronger.
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True
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Vocabulary practice. Define in your own words:
1. Heterogeneous: Diverse in character or content
2. Plurality: The fact or state of being plural
3. Migration: Move from one region or habitat to another
4. Fundamental: Forming a necessary base or core of the central importance
5. Collective strength: By moving the world forward by basing on plurality of knowledge
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?
Food and Language
2. Name three ways in which people of different cultures can help a country to function in the new global economy.
1- Sharing Experience
2-Protection
3- Develope
3. From the Internet, in relation to Cultural Diversity, find a picture and a definition of “Melting pot” and “Garden salad”.
Where new immigrants would eventually be integrated into American culture.
Where different cultural diversity mixes with European American culture to form a meal where all the various ingredients are still readily identifiable.
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”.
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.
Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:
Varied
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Homogeneous
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Increasingly
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Decreasingly
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Respecting
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Humiliating
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Strength
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Weaker
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Improving
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Declining
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Inclusive
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Narrow
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Majority
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Minority
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Tolerance
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Intolerance
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Equality
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Inequality
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Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:
Diverse
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Divers
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Creative
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Imaginative
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Uniqueness
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Rare
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Dignity
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Honor
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Integrated
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Incorporate
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Asset
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Valuable
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Global
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Worldwide
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Benefit
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Profit
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Harmony
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Effect
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