Writing about democracy, Walt Whitman said, “It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten because that history has yet to be enacted.” The word “diversity”— or the term “cultural diversity”—also has a history in Virginia that has yet to be enacted or actualized in some meaningful way. Clearly, a relationship between these two pieces of unfinished business exists, a relationsh...

Sweden has a long history of receiving immigrants and has also a generous integration policy where the immigrants can enjoy their rights as well as themselves being responsible for their relation towards the society culturally. This is true for all immigrants but this study concentrate on immigrants from Bolivia who mostly arrived in the 1980s. As time passed by, families were formed and in man...

This article examines the function of wired literacy and rejects skeptical accusations that it is just empty talk. Selected Malay blog entries and follow-up emails will be examined to show that wired literacy simulates asynchronous learning support. The infusion of wired literacy with new learning through the use of blogging, it is argued, engenders effective self-paced language learning. Withi...

This session is organized into three sections: an overview of the Latina/o condition in higher education that directly affect recruitment and retention; a synopsis of emergent and cutting-edge research aimed at facilitating success for Latina/o students, staff and faculty at predominantly white institutions; and participant-centered discussion of concepts, issues and practical problems. Persona...

The acculturation paradigm of measuring assimilation, separation, integration and marginalization confuses dimensional and categorical conceptions of its constructs, fails to produce ipsative data from mutually exclusive scales, misoperationalizes marginalization as distress, mismeasures biculturalism using double-barreled questions instead of computing it from unicultural measures, and then te...

This study reports on a Native Identity Scale (NIS) adapted from an African American identity scale (Sellers et al., 1997). American Indian (AIs) and First Nations Canadian participants (N = 199) completed the NIS at powwows in the Upper Midwest. The majority of respondents were Ojibwe, but other tribal groups were represented. A principal components factor analysis with varimax rotation reveal...

ideological discourse surrounding multiculturalism as a value principle. In this chapter we will proceed to unpack the concept of multiculturalism as an ideological paradigm, and develop certain normative criteria with which to judge the current model of cultural pluralism in Canada. Regardless of strict definitions, multiculturalism, or the “politics of difference,” is a response to the late t...

With globalization, the number of individuals with knowledge about multiple cultures is on the rise. This article illustrates how studying consumer reactions to brands that are loaded with cultural meanings can contribute to developing a cultural psychology of globalization. Our review demonstrates that brands can be considered cultural ‘products’ – they are tangible, public representations of ...

Understanding value stability and change is essential for understanding values of both individuals and cultures. Yet, theoretical thinking and empirical evidence on this topic have been scarce. In this paper we suggest a model outlining processes of individual value change. This model proposes that value change can occur through automatic and effortful routes. We identify five facilitators of v...

Racial and ethnic socialization are important protective factors for minority children. In this study we investigated socialization in preschool-aged, African American, Latino, and biracial children. We believed that socialization would be a protective factor against child somatic complaints, pervasive developmental problems, and affective disorder. Also, we believed there was a protective/prot...