Language
In Tanzania, after gaining independence, which African language became one of the official languages?
What is Swahili
The Latin word is culture derived from
What is "cultura"
What test do the courts perform to see if Sandra can be classified as white at the beginning of the movie?
What is the pencil test – putting a pencil in her curls to see if it would stay in her hair
What a person thinks about himself or herself and how others say he or she is
What is the definition of identity
What are the 7 major characteristics that differentiate human language from that of animals
Language is arbitrary, social, symbolic, vocal, non-instinctive, conventional, and creative
The 5 levels in Erez and Gati’s 2004 top-down, bottom-up model of levels of culture
What are individual level, micro level, group culture, organizational culture, national culture, and global culture
What becomes the new basis for if a person is considered white according to the courts?
What is family descent (if both parents are white)
Name the 3 categories of identity
What are personal, social, and cultural
Belief systems related to informing linguistic behavior as well as the framework that shapes language acquisition and use
What are language ideologies
The two forms of education are formal and informal. What form of education did Africans use pre-colonization?
What is informal education
Who helps Sandra adjust and feel accepted in the black community?
Who is Petrus’s mother
What are the following the stages of: Unexamined stage, acceptance stage, resistance stage, redefining stage, integration
What are the 5 stages of dominant identity development
The different ways language can be expressed
What is through words, signs, symbols, whether spoken or written
What are the requirements for cultural change to occur?
A process of endogenic intergenerational knowledge
What occurs when Sandra attempts to change her status from white to black?
Sandra is denied a status change
What are the 4 stages of nondominant identity development?
What are the unexamined stage, conformity stage , resistance stage, integration stage
Those who believe the only way to free African languages is to give them the keys to fly is by Africans using them exclusively, and those who believe that the way to elevate African languages is by using foreign languages to tell our stories for the world to hear
What are the two different groups’ approaches to reclaiming African language
Our beliefs, attitudes, preferences, and how we behave are considered to be what?
What are cultural elements from our identities
Is Sandra confident about her identity?
No, due to society never fully accepting her on either side, Sandra struggles with her identity.
In the story of Phiona, what does she overcome, and how does she overcome it?
What is overcoming poverty/stereotypes through success in chess tournaments