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isolation. The effort required to avoid social isolation may be exhausting for the
multicultural individual, leading to self-isolation due to his or her inability or
unwillingness to spend the energy demanded by the social interactions.
Intra-familial mixed context may require the individual to deal with two or more
cultures when interacting with different family members. Frequent contacts with
culturally different family members may require the individual to codeswitch, using
different cultural frames of reference and ICE "sets" (including language) depending on
whom she or he is interacting with. This may be stressful (both cognitively and
emotionally), confusing, and exhausting, especially for young children.
Expectations. ICE allows individuals to effectively communicate with and be
culturally sensitive to different ethnicities, both values and people. Multiethnic
individuals may be expected, by themselves and others, to develop adequate levels of
competency in all the ICE dimensions. Failure to do so may constitute the basis for
shame, guilt, and self-blame, particularly in children. Inadequate and incorrect code-
switching may also make the individual feel and appear socially inappropriate and inept,
furthering the shame and self-blame.
Marginality and out-groups. Ethnically mixed individuals might be at high risk
for becoming marginal. The individual's unusual frames of reference, failure to achieve
group membership, and lack of a consistent reference group may be three of the leading
causes of marginality.
(1) The multiethnic individual's cultural attitudes, values, perspectives, and behaviors
may be an unusual combination of reference points, given the multiplicity of sources
from which they are drawn. This ethnically mixed frame of reference may not be38
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Navarrete-Vivero, Veronica. Ethnically Mixed Individuals: Cultural Homelessness or Multicultural Integration?, thesis, May 1999; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2179/m1/45/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .