How to Develop Multicultural Identity at International Schools

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Download this eBook to discover how an international school helps your child develop their multicultural identity.

When it comes to deliberating between a local Japanese school and an international school community, especially if your children are multicultural, it’s important to look at what each choice has to offer.

With this download, you’ll learn:

The advantages of having a multicultural identity
Why multiculturalism is important
How an international education helps your children find, nurture, and embrace their multicultural identity
How NIS is committed to ensuring a strong multicultural identity in your children

Would you like to learn how to develop your child’s multicultural identity?

Why Multiculturalism is Important

Before exploring the importance of a multicultural education, it’s essential to understand your children have multiple cultural identities. Let’s say, for example, you’re American and your spouse is Japanese, and your children are neither and both. If that sentence confused you, imagine how your children feel?

As multicultural individuals, your children will grow up wondering about questions such as:

Am I American?
Am I Japanese?
Am I Korean?
Am I Mexican?
Am I all, or neither?
Where DO I belong?

Multiculturalism at NIS

We are all constantly exposed to multiple cultures and we all identify in different ways. This has really helped me accept my multicultural identity, as I now don’t feel as much pressure to fit into a specific category.

Serena, Grade 12 student at NIS

If you want your child to function, survive, thrive, enjoy, and contribute to the solutions in what is becoming an increasingly international society, you need to start them off early with an intercultural perspective, an intercultural lens.

Matthew Parr, the Head of School at NIS

Our daughter is starting to think about these different identities and embracing them openly, and I feel like she would probably try to hide those other identities, rather than embrace them, if she was at a Japanese school.

Nathan H., NIS parent

WHY CHOOSE AN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION?

Selecting a School System for your Children

The question of whether to send your children to a Japanese school or international school and whether to provide your children with a nationalized curriculum or more of a global education is complex. Ultimately this is something only you and your family can decide. But equipping yourself with knowledge is one of the best ways to make sure you have all the information you need to make the right decision.

Developing Multiple Cultural Identities

Discover how an international education helps your children find, nurture, and embrace their multicultural identity.

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