Language
Culture
"Skin" movie
Identity
100

In Tanzania, after gaining independence, which African language became one of the official languages?

What is Swahili

100

The Latin word is culture derived from

What is "cultura"

100

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

100

What a person thinks about himself or herself and how others say he or she is

What is the definition of identity

200

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

200

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

200

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)

200

Name the 3 categories of identity

What are personal, social, and cultural

300

Belief systems related to informing linguistic behavior as well as the framework that shapes language acquisition and use

What are language ideologies

300

The two forms of education are formal and informal.  What form of education did Africans use pre-colonization?

What is informal education

300

Who helps Sandra adjust and feel accepted in the black community?

Who is Petrus’s mother

300

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

400

The different ways language can be expressed

What is through words, signs, symbols, whether spoken or written

400

What are the requirements for cultural change to occur?

A process of endogenic intergenerational knowledge

400

What occurs when Sandra attempts to change her status from white to black?

Sandra is denied a status change

400

What are the 4 stages of nondominant identity development?

What are the unexamined stage, conformity stage , resistance stage, integration stage

500

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

500

Our beliefs, attitudes, preferences, and how we behave are considered to be what?

What are cultural elements from our identities

500

Is Sandra confident about her identity?

No, due to society never fully accepting her on either side, Sandra struggles with her identity.

500

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