As a result of reading Chapter 4 and participating in related class discussions and activities, you should be able to:

(1) Pay more attention to your own and others’ family and gender socialization issues;

(2) Be more mindful about cultural and ethnic identity factors when communicating with culturally and ethnically different others;

(3) Understand that cultural and ethnic values form parts of the contents of self-identity;

(4) Recognize that many systems-level societal factors influence newcomers’ adaptation process to a new culture;

(5) Compare the ethnic-cultural identity typological model and the racial-ethnic identity development model.