CULTURAL IDENTITY

Cultural Identity

Cultural Identity

As was afresh empiric (Boski, 2002a), cultural character has been absent as an abstract assemble in the acreage of cross-cultural psychology. Rather, afterward the mainstream, our textbooks accredit to, -- and journals address works on, the affair of amusing character (Berry, et al., 1997, Vol. 3; Smith & Bond, 1998). This bearing is hasty on at atomic two counts: (a) based on the abstraction of basal accumulation paradigm, amusing character approach (SIT) has remained programmatically cultural (Turner, 1999); (b) postulating and barometer cultural variables (values, syndromes, etc.), cross-cultural attitude cannot allow avoiding character that derives from them. ...