Cross-Cultural Understanding

Complexity, differentiation, and institutionalization are characteristics of human life that differentiates it from those of animals

• True

• False

Race refers to a person's physical characteristics, such as bone structure and skin, hair, or eye color. Ethnicity, however, refers to cultural factors, including nationality, regional culture, ancestry, and language. Sarah is a Japanese born American citizen who is Muslim.

What is Sarah’s ethnicity?

• Arab

• Hispanic

• Asian

• White

____ is an organized system of beliefs that tie together many attitudes, values, beliefs, worldviews, and norms provide guidelines for living.

• a) Religion

• b) Spirituality

• c) A culture's set of normal values

• d) A culture's set of sacred morals

Which one of the following statements is true regarding cultural worldviews?

• a) An important aspect of our worldviews is how we think about our self.

• b) They are universal belief systems about the world.

• c) People have worldviews because of globalization.

• d) Most cultures share the same cultural worldviews.

______ is the process by which we learn and internalize the rules and patterns of the society in which we live. This process, which occurs over a long pattern of time, involves learning and mastering societal norms, attitudes, values, and belief systems. Fill in the blank.

• a) Enculturation

• b) Socialization

• c) Acculturation

• d) Adaptation

Which of the following generally refers to the products of the socialization process – the subjective, underlying, psychological aspects of culture that become internalized through development?

• a) Enculturation

• b) Adaptation

• c) Personality

• d) Temperament

What is prejudice?

• a predisposition to believe a certain way about something, usually negatively

• coming together as one

• prejudging without all the facts

• art, music, food, dress, etc. of a group

What is unity?

• a predisposition to believe a certain way about something, usually negatively

• coming together as one

• prejudging without all the facts

• art, music, food, dress, etc. of a group

What is acceptance?

• a sense of one's self and who one is

• fair treatment and consequences

• differences

• acknowledging and welcoming someone

What is identity?

• a sense of one's self and who one is

• fair treatment and consequences

• differences

• acknowledging and welcoming someone