Kraft Chapter 4 Worldview

In Chapter 4 Kraft defines worldview as “the culturally structured assumptions, values, and commitments/allegiances underlying a people’s perception of reality and their responses to those perceptions” (52 Kraft). Kraft goes on to discuss worldview and what distinguished them from culture. Kraft also goes into what the 5 characteristics of worldviews are: “(1) Worldview assumptions or premises are not reasoned out, but assumed to be true without prior proof, (2)A people’s worldview provides them with a lens, model, or map in terms of which reality is perceived and interpreted, (3) In terms of its worldview, a people organizes its life and experiences into an explanatory whole that it seldom (if ever) questions unless some of its assumptions are challenged by experiences that the people cannot interpret from within that framework, (4) of all the problems that occur when people of different societies come into contact with each other, those arising from differences in worldview are the most difficult to deal with, (5) As should be obvious
Kraft starts by explaining monoculturalism perspective as “A naive monocultural perspective looks at reality (including other people’s) from one point of view only, the cultural (worldview) point of view of the monocultural person” ( 69-70 Kraft). Kraft goes on to explain that there are three other positions on monocultural. The first one is the Eclectic Monocultural Position. The Eclectic Position is similar to the position that was defined earlier but comes off way more arrogant. The second position is the Reactionary Monocultural Position. This position is held by people that dislike their culture and are in search for a new one. The third position is the One-World-Culture position that believes that “the world is all moving in one direction and it is just a matter of time before everyone will be westernized, speaking english, and thinking in western ways” (74