PrepTest 116 - Section 4 - Passage 2 - Question 9

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Many educators in Canada and the United States advocate multicultural education as a means of achieving multicultural understanding. ███

Intro topic · Multicultural education

First proposal · Teach about other cultures from within context of majority culture

Schools and colleges should teach students through the lens of majority culture values (liberalism).

Critics of first proposal · Genuine understanding of other cultures impossible using lens of majority culture

Not all cultures share liberal values.

Second proposal · Multicultural education should be neutral about different cultures' values

Shaped by Western culture · Second proposal still uses Western methods

The second proposal still uses tools of anthropology, political science, and other Western disciplines.

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Critics of second proposal · Second proposal is just like first

Can't understand other cultures using scientific method, because science is rooted in Western values that are not necessarily shared by other cultures.

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Critique or debate

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Other’s perspective

The correct answer should be found in the second paragraph, which describes the critics’ view. Remember, they think that we can’t get a genuine understanding of other cultures if we’re studying them from the lends of the majority culture’s perspective.

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Close, but not correct. The critics believe the value systems of one culture can’t be understood if you approach those values solely from the majority culture’s perspective. But this doesn’t imply that the circumstances that gave rise to those value systems can’t be understood by members of a different culture. In addition, a member of another culture with different values might still be able to understand the other culture’s values as long as they don’t study that other culture solely through the lens of their own culture.

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Supported. The critics think having different social and historical circumstances can lead to different values.

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Not supported. The critics think you can’t study another culture solely from the majority culture’s perspective. But this leaves open the possibility that you can study another culture from solely that culture’s perspective. So there’s no evidence that the critics think you have to use more than one cultural perspective.

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Not supported. The critics think you can’t study another culture solely from the majority culture’s perspective. But if you take the perspective of the other culture, you might be able to study them and understand them, even if you still are part of a different culture.

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The critics in the second paragraph don’t comment on liberalism or Western science.

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