Project: 3rd Term

Project
• Human Diversity

The people of the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand are a mixture of many different nationalities.

These different people brought to their new land a wonderful mixture of customs and traditions.

These countries were also inhabited by native people with their own cultures.

- Select a country and a native people or a nationality and write about the history of these people, customs and traditions.
- Talk about the integration of the chosen culture in a different country – if it has been an easy process or not. Are there signs of racism, xenophobia or segregation?
- What events or festivities do the people organise in order to celebrate or value their own roots? Are they well accepted?
- Give your own opinion: Is “multiculturalism” still relevant? What are the main advantages/problems of multiculturalism? Should different races integrate or should they fight for their own roots?


Vocabulary:

Multicultural: including or involving people of several different religious faiths, cultures etc.

Segregation: the separation of a social or racial group from others, especially by the laws in some US states between 1896 and 1954, which prevented black people from using the same schools, hotels, restaurants, seats in buses and in theatres and parks etc, as white people.

Racism: the belief that racial differences between people are the main influence on their characters and abilities, and especially that one’s race is the best. / Dislike or unfair treatment of people based on this belief.

Xenophobia: unreasonable fear and dislike of strange or foreign people, customs etc.

Assimilation (assimilate): to make or become like the people of a country, race, or other group, especially in ways of behaving or thinking.

Integration (integrate): to join or cause (a member of a social group) to join in society as a whole; (cause to) spend time with members of other groups and develop habits like theirs. Example: “Not all foreign immigrants want to integrate (with us/into our society”).

Good Work!
Teacher Sara Silva