Living in a Diverse Society (Issue 2) quiz: O-Level Social Studies (SEAB 2261) quiz

Is harmony achievable in a diverse society?

Working for the good of society: whose responsibility is it?

How can we respond to globalisation?

What does it mean to be a citizen?

The colour of public buildings

Religion, nationality and socio-economic background

The number of bus routes

The weather

Because it closed its borders to outsiders

Because diversity was banned and then allowed

Because of historical migration, recent immigration and globalisation

Because its population stopped changing

Guaranteed absence of any disagreement

The removal of all competition

Everyone thinking exactly alike

A richer culture and a wider range of skills, ideas and perspectives

Misunderstanding and competition between groups if differences are mishandled

Too much shared understanding

An inability to ever cook different foods

Having only one religion

The unfair treatment of a person in practice

An unfair pre-judgement or attitude about a group, often based on stereotypes

A law that protects equal treatment

A type of common space

An attitude held privately about a group

The mixing of different cultures

The unfair treatment of people because of the group they belong to

A shared national identity

By keeping groups completely apart

By rewarding stereotypes

By ignoring all differences and pretending they do not exist

Through positive contact, education and fair rules that protect equal treatment

By bringing people of different backgrounds together in everyday life to build trust and friendships

By separating communities into distinct areas

By removing all public events

By making everyone identical

It erases all cultural differences

It gives people of different backgrounds a common sense of belonging to Singapore

It makes diversity impossible

It replaces the need for fair laws

Because diversity always destroys harmony

Because harmony happens with no effort at all

Because tensions can arise if differences are mishandled, but deliberate effort can build understanding and trust

Because harmony is impossible in any society

Diversity is only a problem to be solved

Diversity is only a benefit with no challenges

Diversity has no effect on society

Diversity is an asset that brings benefits and challenges and must be managed

As either the Section A case study or the Section B structured-response question, but not both in one paper

Only as the structured-response question

Only as the source-based case study

It cannot be examined

Repeating the words of the source exactly

Stating a clear message and supporting it with specific evidence from the source

Giving your own opinion without using the source

Listing every detail in the source