Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice

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Summary: A unbalanced view on the topic of multicultural counseling
Review: This text is written from a very biased cultural perspective. The authors have obviously had an overwhelming exposure to the American left-wing academic culture. The authors do not seek to understand the realities of cross cutltural misunderstandings. Instead they are on a witch hunt for a culprit to blame in already confused situations. This hidden agenda overwhelms the issues that are presented. The authors fail to address cross cultural issues within the concepts of basic counseling principles. The text replaces other forms of ignorance with another. I would recommend avoiding it.

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Summary: Wow
Review: We have been using this book in our Cultural Diversity class. Although I find some very useful information in this text, one has to sit through the material couched in Ultra liberal bias and anti-White propaganda. I admit that much harm has come from the past American generations, but this book seems like it wants us to be ashamed of being White. All other cultures presented in this text are allowed their bigotry and racist (one culture believing it is superior to another--unlike Sue & Sue's definition that you can only be a racist if you are of the majority culture) agenda; however, the White culture cannot have theirs without being viewed in a negative light. We need solutions on how to be more accepting of all cultures within the borders of these United States, not a book that segregates and blames White culture. I was hoping to study a book that offers information on differing cultures and how to appreciate them more instead of a book that tries to make me feel bad about my heritage.