International education should help promote an understanding of cultures and the changing cultural patterns. Cultural diffusion should not result in a form of paternalism, but instead should facilitate an understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity. (Author)

Evidence suggests that both conflict of cross-sex identity and consistency of feminine identification occur in father absent males in Caribbean culture. (Author)

Compares and contrasts Black Power in the United States and in the West Indies; notwithstanding obvious resemblances, borrowings, and interchanges, racial subjugation, accommodation, and protest in the two realms reflect different types of oppression, different degrees of access to goals, and different divisions of color and race. (RJ)

Results indicated that self perception in terms of ethnic identity increased with age, and that identity was strongest with the immediately surrounding group rather than with a national group. (CB)

This essay explores a kind of adaptation, referred to as defenseive structuring, that recurs with great regularity among groups that perceive themselves as exposed to environmental stress of long duration with which they cannot cope directly and aggressively." (Author)

It was tentatively concluded that identification may contribute to the recognition that moral principles and not external sanctions form the basis of right and wrong, but not to the application of these principles to one's own behavior in the absence of authority. (Author)

Women have psychological barriers to success perhaps greater than the obstacles posed from outside. They should be made to see that essentially they are freer than men to choose the roles they will play at different periods of their lives. (Editor)

The author believes in identity-forming counseling and living and objects to an educational system designed to create dossiers rather than an individual self concept. He lists and discusses seven ways in which high schools obstruct identity-forming experiences along with his suggestions to counselors for countering these obstructions. (author)