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· Why does the author propose a typology of psychocultural framework components representing cultural identity?

· Why does the author refer to three fundamental postulates that are incorporated and reflected in thinking and behavior?

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Unit 2-12. THE MULTICULTURAL PERSON

Guidelines for extensive reading of ESP texts

Multiculturalism is an attractive and persuasive notion. It suggests a human being whose identifications and loyalties transcend the boundaries of nationalism and whose commitments are pinned to a larger vision of the global community. To be a citizen of the world, an international person, has long been an ideal toward which many strive. Unfortunately, history is also rich with examples of totalitarian societies and individuals who took it upon themselves to shape everyone else to the mold of their planetary vision.

Less common are examples of men and women who have striven to sustain a self-process that is inclusively international in attitude and behavior. For good reason. Nation, culture, and society exert tremendous influence on each of our lives, structuring our values, engineering our view of the world, and patterning our responses to experience. Human beings cannot hold themselves apart from some form of cultural influence. No one is culture free. Yet, the conditions of contemporary history are such that we may now be on the threshold of a new kind of person, a person who is socially and psychologically a product of the interweaving of cultures in the twentieth century. P. Adler

Text 2-12. STRESSES AND TENSIONS (Continued from Text 2-11)

(After Peter Adler)

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