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标题：Toward Harmonious Urban Communities from the Inside Out: Validating a Multicultural Awareness Scale
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作者：Awang-Shuib Awang-Rozaimie ; Awang-Shuib Awang-Rozaimie ; Siti-Huzaimah Sahari 等
期刊名称：Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1877-0428
出版年度：2012
卷号：36
页码：732-741
DOI：10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.03.080
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：AbstractIntercultural conflict is stipulated due to unwillingness to compromise or the different ways of life orientation. Unawareness to the different cultural cues or frame of references caused resistance, rejection or separation which jeopardizes a harmonious interethnic relationship. The present study was aim to validate a scale to determine the extent multicultural awareness among multiethnic society of Malaysia. A key finding indicated that, the instrument is valid and reliable. Multicultural awareness is important in order to reduce an ethnocentrism in building a harmonious interracial interactions and integration. The implication toward the effectiveness of intercultural relations are highlighted and discussed.
关键词：Intercultural relations;multiethnic society;awareness;adaptation