Rates Of Assimilation Vary

Question 1

What is ethnicity?

Answer 1

Differentiates people based on learnt or cultural differences

Question 2

What is race?

Answer 2

Differentiates people on the grounds of physical characteristics

Question 3

What is culture?

Answer 3

The way of life of a people, their beliefs, values and practices, it is what is passed onto the next generation by learning

Question 4

What are some examples of culture?

Answer 4

Language
Religion
Tradition
Social norms
Moral principles

Question 5

What is cultural assimilation?

Answer 5

A process through which immigrant communities lose their cultural distinctiveness by adjusting to the values, allegiances and lifestyle of the host society

Question 6

How is cultural assimilation a 2 way process?

Answer 6

As it leads to changes in the immigrant and host communities to produce a hybrid culture

Question 7

How are migrants treated in a assimilation host nation?

Answer 7

Migrant as treated as an insider if they conform to the host nations culture

Question 8

How are migrants treated in pluralism host nations?

Answer 8

Migrant is treated like an insider but is allowed and encouraged to retain cultural uniqueness

Question 9

How was migrants treated in polarisation host countries?

Answer 9

Migrant is treated as an outsider
Little social interaction with host society

Question 10

What countries use full assimilation?

Answer 10

USA
France

Question 11

What are the positive perceptions from full assimilation?

Answer 11

Integrated and homogenous society
Society enriched by the best elements of each other

Question 12

What is full assimilation also known as?

Answer 12

Melting pot idea

Question 13

What are the negative perceptions of full assimilation?

Answer 13

Loss of traditional cultures and languages
Immigrant forced to conform and adopt the culture of the host country

Question 14

When is full assimilation made easier?

Answer 14

When the ethnic and racial differences between the host and migrant communities is small

Question 15

What is the pluralism/ multicultural view on migrants?

Answer 15

Political philosophy which celebrates cultural diversity

Question 16

Where is pluralism mainly adopted?

Answer 16

UK
Canada

Question 17

What are the positive perceptions of pluralism?

Answer 17

Cultures learning form each other and enriching each other
Strengthening cultural understanding
Inclusive society
Where uniqueness is celebrated

Question 18

What are some examples of pluralism in the UK?

Answer 18

Ethnic cuisine
Indian words used in English language

Question 19

What are some examples of Indian words used in the English language?

Answer 19

Bungalow
Chutney
Cot
Yoga
Shampoo

Question 20

What are the negative perceptions of Pluralism?

Answer 20

Fractured communities
Conflict ridden identity politics
Threat to national unity

Question 21

What is social polarisation?

Answer 21

Immigrants are permitted work but never allowed to become a citizen

Question 22

Where is social polarisation commonly used?

Answer 22

Gulf Co-operation Council states (GCC) using Kafala system

Question 23

What do migrants have to be in order to work with Kafala system?

Answer 23

Sponsored by an employer

Question 24

What are the positive perceptions of social polarisation?

Answer 24

Socially very accepting of high levels of migration as don’t feel threatened
Economically benefit room cheap migrant labour

Question 25

What are the negative perceptions of social polarisation?

Answer 25

Kafala system is criticised by NGOs and human rights groups as modern slavery
Employers can deport migrants and control if they can change jobs

Question 26

What are some indicators of cultural assimilation?

Answer 26

Socio-economic status of migrant
Spatial segregation or mixing
Social interaction
Proficiency of host language
Inter-ethnic relationship/ marriage
Name change by migrant
Perception of national identity

Question 27

How can socio-economic status be an indicator of cultural assimilation?

Answer 27

Comparing migrant status to indigenous population (income, occupation, education)

Question 28

What might the negative perception of a migrant changing their name to assimilate be?

Answer 28

Changing name to ‘fit in’ is seen as ‘betraying’ your own culture and heritage

Question 29

What are 2 celebrity examples of them changing their name?

Answer 29

Nicolas cage= Nicolas Coppola
Bruno Mars= Peter Gene Hernandez

Question 30

What are the 2 types of factor that affect the rate of assimilation?

Answer 30

Internal
External

Question 31

What are internal factors that affect the rate of assimilation? (definition)

Answer 31

factors within the migrant community

Question 32

What are external factors that affect the rate of assimilation?(definition)

Answer 32

Influences outside the migrant community

Question 33

What are some examples of internal factors that affect the rate of assimilation?

Answer 33

English proficiency
Number of migrants in the area
Cultural differences
Education levels
How well hey mix with host population
Forced of voluntary migration
Length of residence in host country
Endogamous marriage encouraged

Question 34

What is endogamous marriage?

Answer 34

marrying within a specific ethnic group class or social group rejecting others as being unsuitable for marriage

Question 35

What are some examples of external factors that affect the rate of assimilation?

Answer 35

Job availability/ level of job
Acceptance of host to embrace migrants
Ease of learning the language
Pressure from host government to assimilate
Cultural differences

Question 36

What is the degree of “otherness”?

Answer 36

the willingness of both the receiving society to absorb and the migrants to embrace the culture of the new home partly depends on the degree of otherness

Question 37

What affects the feeling of otherness?

Answer 37

Physical appearance (race and clothing)
Belief systems and practices

Question 38

What is an example of physical appearance affecting the feeling of otherness?

Answer 38

Muslims living in Europe can appear as other in their appearance due to beards and veils.

Question 39

What is the difference between the Western and Islamic belief system?

Answer 39

Western- Secularism, Moral relativeness, orthodoxy
Islamic- Theocracy, Fundamentalist, Orthopraxy

Question 40

What is secularism? (western belief)

Answer 40

Religion should be private and not intrude on secular (worldly) affairs

Question 41

What is moral relativeness? (western beliefs)

Answer 41

No absolute moral values (abortion in UK not USA)

Question 42

What is Orthodoxy? (western belief in terms of Christianity)

Answer 42

Religion requires correct belief

Question 43

What is theocracy? (Islamic belief)

Answer 43

religious authority should prevail over political

Question 44

What is fundamentalism? (Islamic belief)

Answer 44

Certain principles are recognised as essential truths that have unchallenged authority

Question 45

What is orthopraxy? (Islamic belief)

Answer 45

Religion requires correct behaviours