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A cross-cultural examination of moral development of children in the U.S. & selected Asian countries. Examines role of culture on moral development. Transmission of values from one generation to another. Role parents & other caretakers play. Cultural roles in determining values & beliefs. Contends cultural values of Americans & Asians are opposite from each other: individualism vs. collectivism. Discusses concepts of moral development. Characterization of American culture. Cultural attributes of Japan & China. Conflicts of values in American schools resulting from immigration & multi-culturalism.

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"A Cross-Cultural Examination of the Moral Development of Children in the United States (Some Minorities) and Asian Countries


The cultures of different ethnic groups in various countries play a large part in influencing the moral development of the children of the respective societies. Culture in itself possesses a moral dimension because it provides every ethnic group with a set of values, [a] network of beliefs that are institutionalized in a people s collective life and that govern their behavior. Culture, then, is the outward discipline in which inherited meanings and morality, beliefs and ways of behaving are preserved (Mack, 1997, p. 167). Therefore, cultural institutions and traditions serve the purpose of defi

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