once the students begin to understand themselves as cultural beings they become more receptive to accepting the culture race and ethnicity of their students gay the etutor programme aimed to create an environment where preservice teachers would be able to interrogate their own and others cultures in ways that were safe supportive inclusive challenging and engaging carr the experience of interacting with children from multiple cultures in an online environment resulted in a positive attitudinal shift for the majority of participants the preservice teachers many of whom had started with an ethnocentric view finished with an ethnorelative view demonstrating empathy and caring for children of different cultures