Anders
Test, 17.10
Questions
1) A monocultural society is a society where only one culture is represented
and the state is most likely trying to keep it that way.
Sentence: North-Korea is a monocultural state.
Bicultural, a society which is bicultural has two major cultures present but not
any more than two.
Sentence: Canada is a bicultural state, but the French part of the population
fears that further immigration will make Canada a multicultural state and they
fear this because they don`t want to become just another minority.
Multicultural. A society which is multicultural is a society where one might find
a wide range of different cultures one might for example find Muslims, Jews,
Christians and others living side by side.
Sentence: Most western countries are becoming multicultural if they aren`t
already.
2) Diversity, it`s hard to explain but one might say if each race, religion etc had
its own letter and the alphabet were a place you could live, then the alphabet
would be very diverse place to be!
Sentence: London is a very diverse city.
3) Integration means that you`re trying to weave immigrants into the fabric of
society.
Sentence: One should try to integrate immigrants
Segregations means that you divide different kinds of the population from
each other.
Sentence: People in South-Africa were segregated until the late 20th century.
4) Your ethnicity describes which country you are from and also describes your
heritage.
Sentence: We should check up on his ethnicity.
Race is a word used to describe the colour of one`s skin and your appearance.
The Aryan race for example, blond hair and blue eyes.
Sentence: Some people believe in inferior races.
5) If somebody is bilingual they speak two different languages they are
bilingual.
Sentence: My friend from Finland is bilingual, he speaks both Finnish and
Russian, but he doesn`t speak anything else.
If somebody is multilingual they may speak any number of languages from
three and up.
Sentence: Ole Jørgen Mølleropp is a multilingual person.
Essay
2)
In this little essay I`m going to try and explain how children may think and
respond to a wide array of different things they may experience. I`m going to
use examples from my own childhood, so it might be a bit hard to compare and
link it to the events in the story “Snow”.
When you`re young it`s often hard to understand everything that the grownups are talking about. Sometimes it`s even hard to understand anything at all!
It`s not just words and conversations either, grownups had what seemed at
first as weird and stupid habits. I for one could never understand why they
always wanted to watch the news and read the newspaper. Now I read the
newspaper myself and even watch the news broadcast sometimes.
I quite couldn`t get my head around why I shouldn`t press my nose
up against the windows in the car either, why I shouldn`t draw in the dew and
such. Car trips were boring, so why shouldn`t I use this as a means to entertain
myself I asked once, then my dad mumbled something about fat on my fingers,
dirty windows and how hard they were to wash. I couldn`t care less so I went
ahead anyways. That made him rush to the nearest gas station where he
bought me a magazine. I was pleased with the outcome of that situation, and
from there on out he always brought a magazine or two to keep in the glove
compartment.
It wasn`t until later I discovered that the windows truly became messy, fatty
and ugly if you drew in the dew and stuck you nose on it. That discovery took
me almost ten years!
Another thing I didn`t get the grasp on until later was why soda and
other sugary treats were bad for me. I used to think they were only bad for my
teeth, so I devised a way in which I could consume enormous amounts of soda
without getting any side effects. If I`d just pour it far back in my mouth it
wouldn`t affect the teeth and I would still get the flavour, clearly a win win
situation. Becoming fat wasn`t exactly my major concern, I thought fat kids
were just fat kids and that they had always been fat, and that they were always
going to be fat.
In the story “Snow”, bad drawings, cultural differences and having
just arrived in a country where it snows during the winter made a little girl
think that ordinary snow was radioactive fallout. During my childhood we
weren`t pestered with the troubles of the outside world, or should I say the
adult world. We minded our own business as long as our parents wouldn`t
mind ours as much. Although one day, I nearly ruined a perfectly good
outboard engine just because my perception of the world was somehow
distorted.
One day when I went on a fishing trip with my dad, I began to toy
with the thought of doing this with my friend Mats sometime, without my dad.
So I asked what I thought to be cleverly disguised questions on how you start
the engine and all that. He explained to me that it needed petrol, which
buttons to push and everything else I needed to know. I even got some clever
fishing tips.
The day after I went to see my friend, explained my plan and got
him onboard. I had made a little checklist, where everything I thought we might
need was written down. I remember that my dad told me about petrol and
where it went, but the problem was that I didn`t know what petrol was!
Luckily, Mats` dad agreed to show us, he had a little tank of it in his garage. And
wow, it was shiny! And it smelled weird. Pleased with the results, we gathered
everything else we needed and headed for the boathouse. There we began to
search for some petrol, since Mats` dad wouldn`t give us any. We looked in
different boxes (Yes we thought that petrol could be stored in boxes) and
anything else that looked roomy and eventually found a substance which
looked a lot like the petrol Mats` dad showed us earlier that day. So, I got my
friend to help me carry the can over to the engine and just before we were
about to pour it in the tank, my dad walked in on us. He looked at us and said:
So that`s why you asked all these questions! We`re just going on a little trip I
said! He recognised the can and said: Okay that seems fine, but that`s not
petrol your trying to pour, it`s diesel. It`ll destroy the engine and you won`t be
going very far with a broken engine. It looks the same to me I said and started
to pour it in. My dad rushed at us and quickly gained control of the diesel can.
He told Mats to go home and he had a chat with me about not doing this and
that and bla bla bla. I always believed that if things looked the same, they`d do
the same, act the same and all that. So diesel was just as good as petrol in my
eyes.
So to sum up this essay, I have to say that these examples might not be prime
material for this kind of text but I gave it a shot anyways, just to try something
different you know. The examples do however all have at least one thing in
common: Children being confused or not knowing why things are as they are.
So to conclude, kids will be kids and won`t always understand what we`re
trying to tell them or why they can`t do certain things. But at least they`re
trying their best!