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Human Diversity in Education: An Integrative Approach, 4/e

Kenneth H. Cushner, Kent State University, Kent
Averil McClelland, Kent State University, Kent
Philip Safford, Case Western Reserve University

Intercultural Development: Considering the Growth of Self and Others

True or False


1	Ethnic identity is most often based on physical characteristics such as skin color.
		A)	True
		B)	False


2	James Banks asserts that multiethnicity is the ideal for a pluralistic society such as the United States.
		A)	True
		B)	False


3	During the late 1800s and early 1900s great numbers of European immigrants settled in the United States. During this time, American schools were used as a means to mold these differing cultures into a single common (homogeneous) group reflecting the dominant White Anglo Saxon Protestant culture of America.
		A)	True
		B)	False


4	The analogy of a salad bowl is used to explain the ideology of cultural pluralism.
		A)	True
		B)	False


5	One problem that was realized using a single-group studies approach to multicultural education was that this method tended to perpetuate an ethnocentric perspective.
		A)	True
		B)	False


6	Intercultural competence refers to the maintenance of an ethnocentric view, especially in the school environment.
		A)	True
		B)	False


7	According to Milton Bennett, intercultural sensitivity has been a natural occurrence throughout the development of human beings.
		A)	True
		B)	False


8	Bennett asserts that a paradigmatic shift in thinking must occur for an individual to move from the ethnocentric stages to the ethnorelative stages of the DMIS. Moving to the ethnorelative stages requires one to see differences in cultures as something to be sought out by oneself.
		A)	True
		B)	False


9	According to Bennett, an individual who is in the denial stage of the DMIS is unable to see cultural differences.
		A)	True
		B)	False


10	The most common stage of the DMIS for individuals to experience is the integration stage.
		A)	True
		B)	False

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