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Sara and DeAngelo are first-year teachers at a public middle school in a city of half a million people. Both consider themselves to be sensitive to cultural differences between people, and would like to impart this cultural sensitivity to their eighth-grade students. One way they have decided to do this is to introduce the class to common misconceptions about culture. They visited the following Website to get some ideas:

http://www.apa.org/monitor/may98/culture.html

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Some students see culture as arbitrary and capricious. How can instructors help students gain an understanding of the contexts in which cultural variations occur?

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One way to correct cultural misunderstandings is to have students examine their own cultural assumptions and expectations. Give two examples of how this can be done.

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When instructors explain cultural customs, how can they avoid the appearance of endorsing them?

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