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Building the Anthropological foundations of Culturometrics The measurement of Cultural Identities Culturometric methodology was first developed over a four-year ethnographic study of second language teaching in Fiji. The ethnography investigated the different cultural expectations of Fijis two main ethnic groups the indigenous Fijians mostly Melanesian and the Indo-Fijians descendants of indentured girmit labourersand showed how their different cultural expecta- tions were manifested in different teaching practices that resulted in disquietingly differential academic attainments. I identified three cultural expectations that matched Fijis complex culturally polarised bi-ethnic setting distinguishing between the Indians and Fijians as illustrated in the three photographs. The first culturometric instrument the Cultural Index CI was developed for this anthropological research. By measuring cultural identities I was able to show that the different teaching and learning behaviours that were responsible for the marked differences in educational attainments between the two ethnic groups were the same community and classroom behaviours that maintained the different cultural expectations of the two ethnic groups. The CI consisting of Primary and Relative cultural indices served to sensitively measure cultural identity and demonstrate the characteristics of cultural intrusion resulting from inherent inter-ethnic social mixing between Fijis two ethnic groups.The CI proved an efficient grounded instrument to evidence greater cultural borrowing by Indo-Fijians than by native Fijians as discriminate analysis indicates. The anthropological and methodological significance of the Fiji longitudinal ethnographic study led to two major publica- tions a book entitled Academic Attainments and Cultural Values 2003 and two-volume work Language Education and Policy in Fiji 2010. Following this ethnography new culturometric research tools were designed for scientifically based qualitative inquiry guided by a humanistic idiographic imperative towards self- actualisation. Developing new research techniques and publishing wide applications of Culturometrics New techniques have been added to Culturometrics since its inception and it is now used to investigate current educational social and political issues. For example my book Preserving National Unity Culturometric Rapid Appraisals of Ethnic Inequalities 2012 shows how Culturometrics can aptly serve to assess dispari- ties between social groups which can lead to civil unrest so that these disparities may be addressed to forestall socialpolitical de- stabilization. The findings instigated a further study aimed to disentangle general fearfulness from fear of crime. Simply both the educational and the socio-political focus of my research is driven by my humanist commitment of making life better for everyone.My forthcoming 2014 paper Neoliberal branding of European educational policies A culturometric perspective on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages is quite explicit in contrasting traditional self- actualising Humanist grounded education with current Neoliberal oriented educationwhich callously undermines our communal societal valuesopportunities for cultural diversityand personal growth. It is because Culturometrics is being shown to be applicable over a wide range of disciplinary fields that Culturometric methodology is receiving increasing international interest. As a cultural researcherI was invited this summer to give workshops to social scientists at the University of Bordeaux and the University of Bretagne Occidentale in France to the University of Mnster in Germany and to the University of Vilnius in Lithuania where I was also asked to address the Seimas the Lithuanian Parliament on language issues in May 2012 and May 2014. Both of these parlia- mentary addresses were given live coverage on the national television. Selected Publications Boufoy-Bastick B. Chinien S. Ed. in press Caribbean dynamics Re-configuring Caribbean Culture. Kingston Jamaica Ian Randle Publishers.298 pp. Boufoy-Bastick B. Culturometrics A constructionist philosophy for humanistic inquiry in qualitative identity research. The Qualitative Report20141991-22. Boufoy-Bastick B. Ed.. The International Handbooks of Cultures of Educational Policy Series Volumes one to four. Strasbourg France Analytrics.2011-2014.902 pp.1060 pp.1369 pp.1370 pp.. 57