Chapter 1

Question 0

What does having a multicultural perspective mean?

Answer 0

Understanding world views influenced by SES, race, ethnicity, gender on cognitive and emotional levels

Question 1

How does cultural conditioning affect individuals

Answer 1

We are all the products of our cultural conditioning and thus inherit the racial, gender, and heterosexual biases of our society

Question 2

What is social justice?

Answer 2

Equal access and opportunity and about building a healthy, validating society for all groups

Question 3

What’s the existential frame for a multicultural perspective

Answer 3

“I have always believed that our worth as human beings is derived from the collective relationships we hold with all people; that we are people of emotions, intuitions, and spirituality; and lifeblood of the people can be understood only though lived realities