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Cultural Identity
1. Being a member of my culture is important to me.
2. Membership in my culture is central to how I define myself.
3. If I were born again, I would want to be born as a member of my culture.
4. I often think about being a member of my culture
5. Being a member of my culture plays a large role in my life.
Assessing Your Ethnic Identity
This questionnaire is to help you think about the degree to which you identify
with your ethnic group. Use the following scale to indicate the degree to
which each statement is true of the way you typically think about yourself.
“Always False” (1), “Mostly False” (2), “Sometimes True and Sometimes
False” (3), “Mostly True” (4), or “Always True” (5).
1. If I were born again, I would want to be born as a member of my ethnic
group.
2. Being a member of my ethnic group is important to me.
3. I often think about being a member of my ethnic group.
4. Being a member of my ethnic group plays a large role in my life.
5. Thinking about myself as a member of my ethnic group is central to how I
define myself.
To find your scores, add the numbers you wrote next to each of the statements. Compute
separate scores for cultural and ethnic identity. Scores range from 5 to 25. The higher the score,
the more you identify with the group.
Adapted from Hofman’s (1985) measures of “civic” and ethnic identities
Assessing Your Ethnocentrism
Use the following scale to indicate the degree to which each statement
is true of the way you typically think about yourself. “Always False”
(1), “Mostly False” (2), “Sometimes True and Sometimes False” (3),
“Mostly True” (4), or “Always True” (5).
To find your score, add the numbers you wrote next to each of the statements. Scores
range from 5 to 25. The higher the score, the more ethnocentric you are.
SOURCE: The items on this questionnaire are drawn from Brewer’s (1981) description of ethnocentrism.