CCU (MID SEMESTER TEST)

 MID SEMESTER TEST

CROSS CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING

SEMESTER V

Name    : Desi Maranata

Class    : 5.1

NIM    : 1888203022

Please answer the questions below briefly:

1. Give your own idea/opinions about:

a.  Culture

The word "culture" derives from a French term, which in turn derives from the Latin "colere," which means to tend to the earth and grow, or cultivation and nurture. In my opinion, culture is a characteristic or habit of a group of people / tribe residing in a certain place. Generally, culture is symbolized as the identity of a nation or group of people. Culture encompasses religion, food, what we wear, how we wear it, our language, marriage, music, what we believe is right or wrong, how we sit at the table, how we greet visitors, etc.

b. Interculture

In my view, Interculture describes communities in which there is a deep understanding and respect for all cultures. Interculture communication focuses on the mutual exchange of ideas and cultural norms and the development of deep relationships. In an intercultural society, no one is left unchanged because everyone learns from one another and grows together.

c. Cross culture

 In my mind, Cross-culture deals with the comparison of different cultures.  In cross-cultural communication, differences are understood and acknowledged, and can bring about individual change, but not collective transformations. In cross-cultural societies, one culture is often considered “the norm” and all other cultures are compared or contrasted to the dominant culture.

d. Multiculture

I think, Multiculture refers to a society that contains several cultural or ethnic groups.  People live alongside one another, but each cultural group does not necessarily have engaging interactions with each other.  For example, in a multicultural neighborhood people may frequent ethnic grocery stores and restaurants without really interacting with their neighbors from other countries.

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

people do not care about their own culture and tend to be attracted to outside cultures.

The solution is by instilling a love of the country from an early age, and preventing too many foreign cultures from entering.

3. How do you define:

a. Mosaic is a society in which ethnic groups retain their separate identities but together from the larger community.

b. Melting pot is a term coined from a turn-of-the-century play by Israel Zangwill. Its use has historically expressed a monocultural goal to fuse and assimilate peoples from various newand old immigrant groups into a new common American society based ondominant Anglo Western cultural ideals, values, language and customs.

c. Stereotype is aset of exaggerated and inaccurate. Generalizations about a group or category of people that is either favorable or unfavorable.

d. Prejudice is an unfavorable attitude toward any cate-gory or group of people based on asimple or an elaborate series of negative traits assumed to be uniformly distributed among the people toward whom one is antagonistics