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What Makes You "Multicultural"
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Multicultural people
Multicultural individuals commonly think, perceive, behave, and respond to global workplace issues in more complex ways than monocultural individuals.
Some multicultural individuals translate these differences into career success.
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Identifying with a culture
- Monocultural: Identity with one cultural group
- Slightly multicultural: Identity primarily with one culture, and to a lesser extent with another culture
- Moderately multicultural: Identity strongly with more than one culture
- Highly multicultural: Identity with more than two cultures.
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Multicultural minds
People can be categorized as multicultural by:
- Having the ability to function in many cultures with ease.
- Knowing multiple languages.
- Having a multicultural mind, and can think in different ways.
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Multiculturalism within Individuals
Multiculturalism within individuals can be defined as the degree to which they know, identify with, and internalize multiple cultures.
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Mixed exposure
Multicultural people are not just confined to having parents from two different cultures. There can be other reasons like:
- They have lived internationally.
- They have immigrant parents or grandparents.
- They lived in a multicultural city.
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