ABSTRACT
Often, cross-cultural psychology emphasizes differences between cultures and preservation of cultural identity, for instance the identity and practices of indigenous peoples. An approach to this set of concepts from a specifically cross-cultural psychological direction can begin with consulting the work of Angela-Minh Tu D. Nguyen, who has written extensively on the conceptual foundations of biculturalism and also on the relation between bilingualism, socialization practices, and biculturality. The bigotry associated with these positions can be contextualized historically in psychology by consulting and directly discussing accounts of it, personal and professional. A less direct way of addressing specifically monocultural and often racist undertones to ordinary everyday reference to other people can be unpacked by designing a revised “identity” question for the demographic section of research or census questionnaires. From a psychological measurement perspective, several biculturality and multiculturality scales might be constructed from the items on the wide variety of cultural-specific scales developed over the past several decades as a theoretical starting point.
