Multicultural Awareness and Urban Communities: Validating a multicultural awareness scale

Abstract

Cultural misunderstanding, conflict, difßculties, anxiety or uncertainty   is stipulated due to contrast expectation, unwillingness to compromise   or the different ways of life orientation. Present study aims to validate a scale to determine the extent multicultural awareness among multiethnic society of Malaysia. A key ßnding indicated that, the instruments are walid and reliable in assessing level of cultural awareness among multicultural society of Malaysia using part-time post-graduate students’ samples from a public higher education institution. Multicultural awareness is vital to lessen ethnocentrism, racism and stereotyping in building a harmonious interracial interactions and integration. Keywords: Intercultural Relations; Awareness; Multiethnic Society eISSN 251T-7528 © 2017 The Author. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/T.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.