ward performance, production and achievement, feminine cultures emphasize caring and value aspirations toward the less substantial goals of comfort, security and happiness. This perspective shows the subjective part of culture and deals with human beings on e deeper level, pointing out that when trying to understand culture, all the constructs mentioned above should also be taken into account before drawing conclusions.The distinction between culture as a system with an existence on its own versus culture as a set of conditions outlined by Berry, Poortinga, Segall and Dasen ( 1992 cited in Pedersen 1996 ) is useful to understanding the dynamic nature of the concept as well as its many dimensions, including gender, social institutions ( family, school, peer groups ,church, political groups) can be observed as mediators of the cultures symbolic meanings, such as values, expectations and attitudes. Multiculturalism seems to capture together the unique interaction among many different variables that together form cultural diversity.There is some confusion however concerning the distinction between terms, such as cultural identity, ethnic identity and racial identity. Some authors approached the construct of identity by means of the associated concept of acculturation ( Padilla 1980 cited in Ponteroto et al 1996 ) , some from social cognitive perspective ( Knight, Bernal, Gazza & Cotta 1993 cited in Woolfe R. 1996). Olmedo ( 1979 cited in Ho 1995) advocated a psychometric perspective to the measurement of acculturation. Three main categories of items have been used in the construction of scales for measuring individual acculturation : linguistic( language proficiency) , sociocultural ( status and mobility, degree of urbanization, family size ) and psychological ( cultural values orientation, knowledge, values, attitudes ). The question of cultural identity and how this term becomes flexible once a person has left a particular country or eve...
