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Follow-up

Answer these questions.

1. In what way does our culture influence us?

2. Why do people who differ in accent and habits strike us as "strange"?

3. What are ethnic jokes built on?

4. How did psychiatrists in the 19th century begin to use the term “stereotype”?

5. Why do we often make generalizations and assumptions regarding people from a different cultural background?

6. When do generalizations become dangerous?

7. What is the frequent stereotype of the American?

Try to guess the meaning of the following words from the text.

to facilitate conventional

bias grossly

pattern misleading

Choose the best answer.

1. When we confront another culture, our normal emotional response is

A. egocentric

B. ethnocentric

C. geocentric

2. The term stereotype was first used in

A. the 17^th century

B. the 18^th century

C. the 19^th century

3. Stereotyping is

A. harmless and productive

B. worthwhile and rewarding

C. risky and offensive

4. The word “stereotype”comes from

A. mathematics

B. a copying process

C. astronomy

5. Cultural awareness begins by

A. learning to understand others, then understanding yourself

B. understanding others

C. understanding yourself, then learning to understand others

6. Negative stereotyping implies

A. unrealistic characteristics of a group of people

B. realistic characteristics of a group of people

C. humorous characteristics of a group of people

State your views on the following points.

1. Social customs differ greatly from one country to another. It is therefore impossible to give guidelines that will be applicable in every culture.

2. Stereotypes eliminate the challenges of understanding people who are different from ourselves; they supposedly give us a general overview of whole groups of people so we know what to expect and how to act.

VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

1. Identify the one underlined word for the sentence to be correct.

1. It is very hard to know what life is really likes in a country or region whose culture one

A B

has never experienced directly.

C

2. Culture is learned and transmit from generation to generation.

A B C

3. There is no clear-cut way ofdealt with culture shock.

A B C

4. Undergoing culture shock is in itself a learning experience that you should take

A B

advantage at.

C

5. All cultures havedifference notions about social space

A B C

6. It is impossible to make generalizations that can being applicable to every situation.

A B C

7. We might to call culture shock an occupational disease of many people who have been

A B

suddenly transplanted abroad.

C