Multicultural Cognition & Identity

Question 1

Cultural Frame Switching (Hong et al., 2000)

Answer 1

Multicultural people have multiple cultural lenses (monocultural people only have one cultural lens - the point of this course is to expand our thinking from your culture to understand the other cultures!)

Question 2

Integrative Complexity (Tadmor & Tetlock, 2006)

Answer 2

Multicultural individuals can recognise competing perspectives (see things from the other’s perspective) and integrate different perspectives, generating creative ideas and solutions.

Question 3

Multiple identities & multiple in-groups

Answer 3

Multicultural individuals have multiple identities (identify with more than one culture) which means they are a part of multiple in-groups, and have a broader social network (social connections because of higher affinity, higher bias, and possible homophily).

Question 4

When you internalise your culture, is it possible to internalise the cultures into one hybrid culture?

Answer 4

• Yes. Research shows that some multicultural individuals merge the cultural beliefs & frames into one hybrid cultural identity (not comparmentalised).

Question 5

Compartmentalised cultures vs Hybrid cultural frame

Answer 5

Multicultural persons who compartmentalise their different cultures engage in:
- Frame switching
- integrative complexity

Some multicultural persons may not separate their cultural but merge the cultural frames into one cultural identity (occurs in the event of early immersive culture mixing).

Question 6

How does one form a Compartmentalised cultural Identity

Answer 6

This happens when individuals acquire one culture in one context, and another culture in another context (e.g., acculturation)

Question 7

How does one form a Hybrid cultural Identity

Answer 7

• Occurs when one has grown up in a mixed cultural environment at home & early immersive culture mixing (Martin & Shao, 2016)