Intercultural societies
A society where multiple cultural groups coexist.
What is a multicultural society?
False, often sensational, information disseminated under the guise of news reporting.
What is the definition of fake news?
The language most commonly used around the world for business, travel, and international communication.
What is English?
A system of government where the people have the power to choose their leaders through voting.
What is democracy?
A common misunderstanding that simplifies and generalizes entire cultures or peoples.
What is a stereotype?
When you only see or hear opinions that match your own, and other views are left out.
What is an echo chamber?
A common language used for communication between people who speak different native languages.
What is Lingua Franca?
The right to express opinions without government censorship or punishment.
What is Freedom of Speech?
This Khaled Hosseini novel follows Amir, a boy from Kabul, as he seeks redemption for betraying his childhood friend Hassan.
What is the Kite Runner
A feeling of disorientation when exposed to a different culture for the first time.
What is culture shock?
The act of sharing misleading or completely false information.
What is disinformation?
To alternate between two languages during a conversation.
What is code switching?
It was not until after the Second World War that the idea of democracy took root worldwide
When did the idea of democracy take toot worldwide?
The movie uses black and white to visually represent the character’s past.
What does American history X use to represent Derek’s past?
A movie about cross-cultural friendships and generational conflict featuring Clint Eastwood.
What is Gran Torino?
A hidden preference in how news is presented, often favoring one viewpoint or political side.
What is media bias?
A simplified form of speech that develops as a means of communication between speakers of different native languages.
What is pidgin languages?
When a country says it is democratic, but in reality, people do not have real power.
What is a fake democracy or flawed democracy?
This story shows what it’s like to feel “not Black enough” and “not white enough.”
What is Black Enough?
Her talk was titled “The Danger of a Single Story”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie held a TED talk about stereotypes in 2009. What was the Ted talk titled?
An organism “to which exogenous components have been added for the purpose of adapting to new environments”
What is a definition of a cyborg? (Amber Case)
A fully developed natural language that originated from a pidgin but has become the native language of a community.
What is creole languages?
The short story about a British-Pakistani immigrant’s cultural conflict and father-son relationship.
What is My Son the Fanatic?