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Question: Essays I Your responses must be supported and substantiated by the information discussed by the text authors. All assignments MUST be typed, double-spaced, in APA style, and must be written at graduate level English. Please use the reading assignments to substantiate your responses, citing in APA format.

Your response to each question should be 1/2 - 1 page. Your entire assignment should be 2-4 pages plus a title and reference page.

Studies show that people in countries such as Japan and Korea tend to evaluate themselves critically in surveys; they tend to consider self as not necessarily hard-working. Explain the reasons for such cultural response bias.

Native Americans and Alaska Natives report a higher prevalence of pain symptoms and painful conditions when compared with the general population of the United States. What is your understanding of these findings?

It is assumed that multicultural experiences foster the creative expansion of ideas. Consider expatriate artists and writers whose brilliant insights emerged when they left their homeland settled in a foreign country. Do you think that creativity can be sparked when a person is exposed to a foreign culture?

A study of samples in 32 countries showed that individualism was positively correlated with higher expressivity of emotions, especially happiness and surprise. Individualism was negatively correlated with expression of sadness. What is your understanding of these research findings?

Assignment Outcomes: Analyze your own cultural background.

Compare and contrast issues and practices relevant to helping people from culturally diverse backgrounds.

Assess processes and issues related to clients of various ethnic, cultural & diverse origins.

Identify patterns of social injustice, racial and ethnic adaptation.

Analyze the global expansion of racism.