Acculturation & Appropriation
This word refers to the process through which a person or group adopts elements of another culture, often through contact and interaction.
What is acculturation?
This region links the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and has become increasingly important economically, politically and strategically.
What is the Indo-Pacific?
This language is spoken as a first, second or foreign language by people all over the world.
What is English?
This ship gave its name to the generation of Caribbean migrants who came to Britain after the Second World War.
What is the Empire Windrush?
This institution is shared by the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and several other Commonwealth countries.
What is the monarchy?
This term refers to the different forms of English spoken around the world.
What are the varieties of English?
This concept describes the use of elements from another culture, especially when the dominant group takes them without fully understanding or respecting their original meaning.
What is cultural appropriation?
This country is both a major English-speaking nation and a central power in the Indo-Pacific region.
What is Australia?
This term refers to the ability of a country to influence others through culture, values, media, education and language rather than through military force.
What is soft power?
The first famous arrival of the Windrush generation took place in ......
What is 1948?
This is the elected chamber of the British Parliament. Its members are called MPs.
What is the House of Commons?
British English, American English, Australian English and Indian English are examples of this.
What are World Englishes?
Unlike cultural appropriation, this concept generally implies respect, dialogue, knowledge and recognition of the culture being borrowed from.
What is cultural appreciation?
This group represents the First Peoples of Australia and includes Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Who are Australia’s Indigenous peoples?
The global influence of English is partly connected to the British Empire and later to the economic, political and cultural power of the United States.
What are the British Empire and American power?
Many members of the Windrush generation were invited or encouraged to come to Britain to help rebuild the country after the Second World War.
What is labour migration?
In this country, the monarch is the head of state, but the country is politically independent and has its own elected government and parliament.
What is Canada?
Pronunciation, vocabulary, spelling, grammar and expressions can vary from one English-speaking community to another.
What are the main areas of linguistic variation?
Food, music, fashion, language and religious symbols can all become controversial when they are taken from a minority culture and used for profit or entertainment by a dominant culture.
What is cultural appropriation?
The expression was used to justify the colonisation of Australia by claiming that the land belonged to nobody.
What is terra nullius?
English is widely used in international business, science, diplomacy, aviation, technology and higher education.
What is a global lingua franca?
This generation contributed to British society through its work, music, food, language, fashion and cultural traditions.
What is Caribbean cultural influence on Britain?
In the United Kingdom, this person is the head of government and usually leads the political party with the largest number of MPs in the House of Commons.
Who is the Prime Minister?
This variety of English developed in an Indigenous and multicultural context and includes words borrowed from Aboriginal languages.
What is Australian English?
This question asks whether cultural exchange can ever be completely equal when the cultures involved do not have the same historical power or social status.
What is the question of power in cultural exchange?
The Indo-Pacific is not only a geographical area. It is also a space of rivalries, alliances, trade routes and competition for influence between major powers.
What is a geopolitical region?
The global spread of English can create opportunities for communication, but it can also contribute to linguistic inequality and the decline of other languages.
What is the ambivalent impact of English?
The scandal named after this generation showed that some lawful Caribbean residents were wrongly detained, denied legal rights or threatened with deportation.
What is the Windrush scandal?
Removing a statue of a colonial figure can be seen either as an act of historical justice or as an attempt to erase history.
What is the controversy surrounding the removal of imperial monuments?
The existence of many varieties of English challenges the idea that only one variety is correct or legitimate.
What is linguistic diversity?