7.5 Advantages and Challenges of Multicultural Families

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Lesson 7.5: Advantages & Challenges of Multicultural Families

​DO NOW:
1) Connect to Wayground
2) Think about it: what shapes YOUR identity?

​Lesson Objectives:
1) Identity the values, norms, and customs of multicultural families
2) Define stereotypes, stigmas, and bias
3) Analyze the advantages and challenges that multicultural families face

​Vocabulary:
Code-switching, decision-making, folkways, identity, mores, multicultural family, norms

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Word Cloud

When you think of culture, what words pop into your mind?

Multiple Select

Which of the following is true regarding multicultural families? (Select 2)

• Multicultural families can be created through internal or external means.

• Multicultural families focus on one main culture to creates consistency for children.

• There are three main ways in which researchers define being multicultural.

• Multicultural families are only present in The United States.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes the makeup of the multicultural family?

• Many cultural traits are seen in the family.

• Every single person in the family is multicultural.

• No cultural traits are present in the family.

• One cultural trait dominates the family.

Open Ended

Consequences of violating folkways: What would happen to someone that cut in line at a Panera?

Open Ended

Consequences of violating mores: What would happen to someone if took their pet crocodile into a restaurant?

Multiple Choice

Which is an example of codeswitching?

• A person using slang in English.
• A person taking off their shoes at the front door of their friend's house because that's what the friend's family does.

• A person demanding that people adjust to their standards and ways.

• A bilingual person speaking both languages simultaneously.

Multiple Select

Which of the following is an effective way to show the value and influence of many cultures in a family? (Select 2)

• By removing self-identity

• By practicing selfishness

• By creating new traditions

• By blending family cultures

Match

Match the following definition to the term it describes.

• Stigma

• Bias

• Stereotype

A mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person.

An inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair.

A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

• A mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person.

• An inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair.

• A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following BEST describes the belief that all cultures should be judged independently of each other?

• Stigma

• Bias

• Ethnocentrism

• Cultural relativism