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The Inventory of Cross-Cultural Sensitivity

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Select the option that best represents your level of agreement with each statement below.
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1. I speak only one language.
2. The way other people express themselves is very interesting to me.
3. I enjoy being with people from other cultures.
4. Foreign influence in our country threatens our national identity.
5. Others' feelings rarely influence decisions I make.
6. I cannot eat with chopsticks.
7. I avoid people who are different from me.
8. It is better that people from other cultures avoid one another.
Strongly agreeModerately agreeSlightly agreeNeutralSlightly disagreeModerately disagreeStrongly disagree
9. Culturally mixed marriages are wrong.
10. I think people are basically alike.
11. I have never lived outside my own culture for any great length of time.
12. I have foreigners over to my home on a regular basis.
13. It makes me nervous to talk about people who are different than me.
14. I enjoy studying about people from other cultures.
15. People from other cultures do things differently because they do not know any other way.
16. There is usually more than one good way to get things done.
Strongly agreeModerately agreeSlightly agreeNeutralSlightly disagreeModerately disagreeStrongly disagree
17. I listen to music from another culture on a regular basis.
18. I decorate my home or room with artifacts from other countries.
19. I feel uncomfortable when in a crowd of people.
20. The very existence of humanity depends upon our knowledge about other people.
21. Residential neighborhoods should be culturally separated.
22. I have many friends.
23. I dislike eating foods from other cultures.
24. I think about living within another culture in the future.
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25. Moving into another culture would be easy.
26. I like to discuss issues with people from other cultures.
27. There should be tighter controls on the number of immigrants allowed into my country.
28. The more I know about people, the more I dislike them.
29. I read more national news than international news in the daily newspaper.
30. Crowds of foreigners frighten me.
31. When something newsworthy happens I seek out someone from that part of the world to discuss the issue with.
32. I eat ethnic foods at least twice a week.
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