Equality is commonly declared as a high cultural value in American society. And it is true in many regards. Many legislative norms and practices demonstrate widespread equality in American daily life. However, American equality is still inconsistent and far from … Continue reading
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The Measurement Pitfalls of Research Designs in Cultural Studies of Religions
Cross-cultural comparability and generalizability are the problems that come up in religious studies and need to be solved for scientific progress (Karandashev, 2021a; Karandashev et al., 2022; Fischer, 2022). When studying behavioral and social phenomena in various populations and religious … Continue reading
What Are the Main World Cultures?
What are the main cultures in the world? How global are they? And how diverse are they? These are among the key questions that cross-cultural researchers may ask. The West-East dichotomy has been a classification of world cultures well-known by … Continue reading
How Does Cultural Power Distance Affect Societies?
People’s social relationships are hierarchically structured in many regards. Individuals’ power and status, for example, are distributed unequally in many societies. And the degree of this social inequality varies in different cultures. Power distance is a measure of how important … Continue reading
What Is Cultural Identity?
An individual’s identity is fundamentally composed of personal, social, and cultural identities as well as more specific ones like sexual or gender identity. They all explain how people perceive themselves, but they characterize different traits of individual identity. The cultural … Continue reading
Who Is a Multicultural Person?
The article describes studies showing how multicultural communities and cultural mixing foster the formation of a multicultural mind and a multicultural person. Intercultural Encounters and Cultural Mixing Inter-cultural connections and cultural mixing in multicultural countries, states, and residential areas are … Continue reading
What Is Multicultural Identity?
In daily life, people frequently need to answer questions about their race, ethnicity, nationality, social class, gender, and age. To those who ask, it looks like a simple question. However, it is less simple for people to answer. Many people … Continue reading
What Is a Multicultural Community?
People in the modern world are exposed to a variety of cultures, some of which are more or less compatible with one another. Many countries have mixed cultures that shape multicultural people and mixed cultural identities. These mixed cultures are … Continue reading
The Regional Diversity of Countries
What are the national cultures? Does any regional diversity exist in the national cultures? Or are they homogeneous in their national cultures? National cultures are the cultures that people from specific countries living in certain territories have in common with … Continue reading
Cultural and Individual in Cross-cultural Comparisons
Many countries around the world have a diverse population in terms of races, ethnicities, religions, languages, and historical and cultural backgrounds of the people living in their territories. So, researchers widely investigate cross-cultural comparisons. Even though people in many countries … Continue reading