Activities (Answers may vary) Direction: Give keypoints or important keywords that summarizes your understanding about the following: 1. 1. Multicultural Literacy Key Point/Keywords Your own explanation about Multicultural Literacy Cultural sensitivity is the act of being cognizant of 1. Cultural Sensitivity someone’s culture and accepting it. It implies that you withhold judgment of cross-cultural practices, and that you can deal effectively with these differences. 2. Cross-Cultural Having friends from different cultures promotes multi- Friendship culturalism. It helps you accept people from different races and ethnicities for their peculiarities and shows how to practice beliefs different from yours. 3. Global Awareness Global awareness is knowledge of the interrelatedness of local, global, international, and intercultural issues, trends, and systems. It is the integration of having the information present today to be the avenue in delivering global issues that concerns the human beings. 4. Identity Formation Identity formation has to do with the complex manner in which human beings establish a unique view of self and is characterized by continuity and inner unity. It is therefore highly related to terms such as the self, self-concept, values, and personality development. 2. Global Literacy Key points/Keywords Your Own Explanation about Global Literacy 1. Diversity Diversity is about what makes each of us unique and includes our backgrounds, personality, life experiences and beliefs, all of the things that make us who we are. It is a combination of our differences that shape our view of the world, our perspective and our approach. 2. Globalized Systems The whole world is dependent to each other’s economy. Having a capitalistic society requires a globalized system to cater the globalized nation. The era the world is in today is much bigger and higher compared to the traditional industrialized society, and so this results to the alteration of systems, making it more globalized. 3. Technological skills Techno-natives are the people today and so the generation Z possess a lot technological skills. Being a digital and media literate in todays’ generation is as crucial as being aware to the major trends of the capitalistic society. Having no techno skills could make a person’s life difficult to catch up. 3. Multicultural Education Key Point/Keywords Your own explanation about Multicultural Literacy 1. Cultural Hegemony It is the notion of a dominant group, utilizing culture in order to vindicate their dominance. The consent to the rule of the dominant group is achieved by the spread of ideologies through social institutions such as schools, churches, media and among others. In a simple and concrete example, cultural hegemony in today’s time, the dominance of high class and world celebrities’ perceptions, values, and more in influencing the generation, making it a cultural norm. It is the utilization of power that frames the worldview. 2. Ethnocentrism One word to think of when this pops: “ethnic bias”. It usually depicts the notion that one’s culture is superior to anyone else’s. For example, Filipinos way of showing respect is by saying po and opo when talking to elders, strangers, higher people or to anyone else, and this makes them and the other nationalities think that they are top of the range. Individuals who are ethnocentric use their belief system or their ideologies to assess other culture, which usually ends up having a negative attitude toward another’s culture. 3. Cultural Pluralism A minority group retains its own unique culture while participating in a society with separate, dominant culture. It is all about synchronizing successfully with the dominant culture whilst preserving the group’s ideologies. It basically entails the notion that “a world without diversity is a world in adversity”. An example of this is how Overseas Filipino Workers carry on their standards or culture as they coexist in almost all over the world. In this case the distinctiveness exists while they subsist in a dominant culture. 4. Monolithic Culture One stone, from one big thing. This basically means that there is one or sole minority group that is without cultural mixture. A perfect example is the Korowai People of Papua New Guinea that exists in the rainforest of the aforementioned place. This tribe is still into cannibalism, as they believe that every humans possessed by evil shall be eaten. Their culture is out of the civilized context. Monolithic culture also exists in some parts of the African Continent and Asia.
