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Acculturation: to move towards a culture First defined as culture change resulting
from contact between two autonomous cultural groups
Immigrants, refugees, colonized
Psychologically, two issues need to be better understood to know how people will respond.
1. how much are one’s own cultural identity and customs are of value and are to be retained
2. inter-group conflict: are relations with other groups of benefit?
Integration Assimilation
Separation Marginalization
Is it of value toMaintain relationships
Yes
No
Is it of value to maintain cultural identity?
Yes No
Acculturation strategy Integration: positive views towards host and
origin
Assimilation: attempt to fit in and fully participate. Little or no effort to maintain traditions
Acculturation strategy Separation: maintain traditions but little
attempt to participate in host
Marginalization: little effort to participate but loose traditions….
How do we know where on this diagram, a dominant and a non-dominant group falls?
National policies, ideologies
Group goals, attitudes
Who adjusts? Predictor of acculturation success is
language ability (Ying & Liese, 1991).
Cultural distance (difference in overall way of life) Social complexity match
Cultural fit (personality similarity
Need for cognitive closure Desire to have a definite answer
Need connection in order to overcome unease of uncertainty
Initial contact group is important and sets on a trajectory.
Psychological question What happens to us as humans when we
come into contact with another culture?
Common feeling is stress
Acculturative stress
quote]The first I want to say sorry I know a little English. I hope you understand all of this. Of course you need to know why I shooting? Because undercover cop gave me a lot of ass during eighteen years I got seven years and eight month delivery to grocery in the California came back New York on the August 2007. [/quote]
When he writes that the undercover cop gave him a lot of ass, he most likely is describing his harassment by the police for the last 18 years.
He sounds like he worked for seven years and eight months as a grocery deliver person in California and then moved back to New York.
What changes with acculturation? Male gender norms Education Adolescence Ideas of autonomy Patterns of risk taking behaviors