Cultural Diversity: Family Strengths and Challenges

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Cultural Diversity Family Strengths and
Challenges
Cultural Diversity Family Strengths and
ChallengesChapter 2

• Chapter 2

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Chapter Overview

1. Introductory Quiz
2. Thought for the week
3. Race v. Ethnicity
4. Six Universal Family Strengths
5. Ethnic Strengths and Challenges
6. Consider the Following
7. A Tool
8. Marriage Outside the Group

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I. Introductory Quiz
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1. America is still a melting pot.

• False

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2. Ethnicity and race mean about the same
thing.

• False

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3. A majority of Californians are Caucasians.

• False

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4. Asian Americans have a higher median income
than Caucasian Americans.

• True

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5. The nuclear family has been identified as the
most functional family unit.

• False

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6. American families are stronger because they
value winning, money and things.

• False

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7. Kwanzaa is the Black equivalent of Christmas.

• False

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8. The internet contributes to the breakdown of
the family.

• True
• (see p. 25)

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9. Latinos have the highest rate of
intercultural marriages.

• False

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10. Male and female relationship problems often
have biological roots.

• False

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II. Thought for the Week

• The more diversity we have around us, the more
  options and opportunities we have before us.
• Nicole Easley.

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III. Race V. Ethnicity

1. Dramatic Demonstration
2. Why is it important?

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IV. Six Universal Family Strengths

• Family System Characteristics
• Cohesion
• Flexibility
• Communication
• Sociocultural Characteristics
• Extended families
• Social systems
• Belief systems

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V. Ethnic Strengths and Challenges

• Group Work
• Caucasian Families
• African American Families
• Latino American Families
• Asian American Families
• Native American Families

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VI. Consider the Following

• A concerned spouse must understand the
  importance of his or her beliefs with regard to
  the home. A healthy commitment will mean, among
  many things, knowing

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that because the home is so crucial, it will be
the source of our greatest failures as well as
our greatest joys.
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that home is the one place we will be in that
will require us to practice every major positive
skill and not just a few, as may be the case in
some temporary relationships.
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that the pressures of life in a family will
mean that we shall be known as we are, that our
frailties will be exposed and, hopefully, we
shall then work on them.
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that the love and thoughtfulness required in
the home are no abstract exercise in love. They
are real. It is no mere rhetoric concerning some
distant human cause it is an encounter with raw
selfishness, with the need for civility and
taking turns, of being hurt and yet forgiving, of
being at the mercy of others moods and yet
understanding, in part, why we sometimes inflict
pain on each other.
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that family life is a constant challenge, not a
periodic performance we can render on a stage
quickly and run for the privacy of a dressing
room to be alone with ourselves, for the home
gives us a great chance to align our public and
private behavior, to reduce the hypocrisy in our
lives, to be more congruent.
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Thus, to commit oneself to home and family is to
do a wondrous thing. It is a high adventure. It
is not a task for those who wish to run away, nor
for those whose human causes are chosen because
the cause is distant and makes no real demands of
them. Neal A. Maxwel, 1972
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VII. A Tool

• Family Home Evening
• Once Weekly
• Format
• Open
• Business
• Lesson
• Game
• Dessert
• Close
• Alternative Format Activity

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VII. Marriage Outside the Group

• Panel Discussion