Multicultural Awareness and Urban Communities: Validating a multicultural awareness scale

Abstract

Cultural misunderstanding, conflict, difficulties, 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 finding indicated that, the instruments are valid 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.