Multicultural Learning enhances creativity
Discussion
It is shown from the results of the research that people who learned another culture alone has a higher mean number of RAT items correctly solved than the people learned own culture alone. Moreover, the mean number of RAT of learned own culture from someone from another culture is higher than the number of learned another culture. This conclusion supports the viewpoint that multicultural learning can enhance creativity. However, this effect can be varied as a consequence of learning context. As the table 1 shows that the mean number of RAT items correctly solved of own culture Learned alone is lower than learned other culture alone. The result implies that learning other culture can enhance creativity, which also can be described as multicultural learning enhances creativity. Culture is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, its conventionalized learned routines can help individuals in a society to coordinate their social behaviors (Chiu & Hong, 2006). This also can be said that it helps individuals make sense of their social environment and coordinate their behavior with others from the same culture with relatively little effort (Chiu & Hong, 2006). However, it may constrain creativity (Leung et al., 2008). When people learn their own culture alone or from someone from the same culture, only one culture is being immersed in and exposed to. The socialization experiences of a person or a group who live in the same culture would predispose them to respond to environmental cues in culturally normative ways (Maddux et al., 2010). Therefore, the mean number of RAT items correctly solved of Learned own culture from someone within own culture is lower than learned from someone from another culture. In other words, other person’s cognition or knowledge may restrict the learner’s imagination or creativity if they