Ethnocultural empathy refers to the understanding of feelings of individuals that are ethnically and/or culturally different from oneself.
Quintana[4] defined ethnic perspective taking as a cognitive-developmental ability that an individual could attain as they proceed through developmental life stages.
[6] Ridley and Lingle[7] define cultural empathy as a "learned ability" composed of three subordinate processes: cognitive, affective, and communicative.
were found to have significantly higher levels of general and specific[clarification needed] ethnocultural empathy than their White counterparts.
[12] People with different levels of ethnocultural empathy were also reported to respond distinctively to individuals who are similar with themselves and those who are not.
[13] Enthnocultural empathy not only functions in cross-cultural contexts, but also in situations such as majorities vs. minorities, males vs. females, natives vs. non-natives.
Enthnocultural cultural empathy has been used in research areas such as racialism, feminism, multiculturalism, ethnic identity, etc.