Question

Use the following terms correctly and indicate their meanings as you describe American culture and current challenges:

Culture, Acculturation, Cultural Competence, Ethnocentrism, Stereotyping, Xenophobia

Answer 1

Culture: It can be defined as the perticular people or society's ideas, customs and social behaviour.

It is aslo the collection of arts and other manifestations of humans. It is an intellectual part of perticular society or group of people.

Acculturation: It is merging of different cultures so that cultural modification of an individual, group, or people by adapting to or borrowing the other culture or cultures that are being merged.

Challenges due to acculturation:

people may have psychological problems due to merging of various cultures.

Cultural competence: It is an ability of an individual or people or society to understand, communicate and interact with other cultures individuals or people or society.

Ethnocentrism: People generally think their own culture is superior among other cultures and this belief resulting in judging other cultures based on their own culture ideals.

Challenges due to ethnocentrism:

1. Rasism problems
2. Prejudice problems

Stereotyping: It can be defined as the over simplified assumptions or over simplified images or generelised belief on a perticular groups or people or an individual by a person or people.

Xenophobia: It is nothing but fear of strangers or foreigners or aliens.

Current challenges of xenophobia:

1. Immigration problems are increasing in USA due to xenophobia.
2. Government is investing millions of dollars to avoid illegal entry of foreigners in the country.