Chapter 19

Question 1

Immigration

Answer 1

people moving from their home country to a new country where they do not have citizenship

Question 2

Culture Shock

Answer 2

the surprise of the cultural disparity between their and their new country’s culture

Question 3

Assimilation

Answer 3

the process of accepting the new culture.

Question 4

Acculturation gap

Answer 4

Children of immigrants normally adopt more of the new culture as they are exposed to it more thus a gap is made between the children and their parents.

Question 5

Acculturation

Answer 5

people may keep their culture but adopt curtain aspects of the new culture such as food, language and customs.

Question 6

Cultural diversity

Answer 6

• a set of many cultural norms that collide together within a society

Question 7

stereotype

Answer 7

a generalisation of attributes which a certain group has. Stereotypes have allowed us to escape from danger

Question 8

Schemas

Answer 8

mental representations of categories

Question 9

Ethnocentrism

Answer 9

fear of an entire culture

Question 9

Xenophobia

Answer 9

fear of strangers from other cultures

Question 10

Cultural insensitivity

Answer 10

when people offend others from another culture without knowing their customs and thus could be viewed as rude.

Question 11

Racism

Answer 11

fear of someone from a certain race or religion

Question 12

Implicit racism

Answer 12

unconscious form of racism occurs when people use unconscious biases

Question 13

Explicit racism

Answer 13

concious form of racism

Question 15

ways to help understand other groups

Answer 15

• Sustained contact interacting with people for a long period of time
• Intergroup contact interacting with a specific group helps us to gain understanding
• Superordinate group some goals are so large we must collaborate with others which help us to gain an understanding
• Mutual Interdependence when people depend on another group for survival and thus interact
• Equality people must interact with no power difference and must be on equal grounds