Acculturation and multiculturalism
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Why do people migrate
- Push (away from home country)
- Pull (towards another country)
Problems in studing acculturation
- Different reasons for migrating
- Different groups of acculturating people
- Different experiences
- Scholars have many different viewpoints
- There is also a wide disagreement about the process of acculturation
Berrys fourfold model
- Assimilation (lose heritage culture but gain new culture)
- Integration (both new and old culture)
- Marginalization (lose both cultures)
- seperation (keep heritage culture and dont gain new culture)
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Onderzoek naar unidimensional model and bidimensional model
- Bidimensional model shows more information about acculturation with the same sample
- unidimensional models gives incomplete and misleading rendering of the accultuation process
Two outcomes of acculturation
- Sociocultural adaptation
- doing well and fitting in
- Psychological adjustment
- Feeling well, mental health
Form of adaptation to acculturaion depends on:
- Cultural distance
- Cultural fit
- Cultural model of diversity
Two concepts on how to integrate two cultures
- Blending (integrating both cultures into one culture)
- Frame switching (switching culture according to context)
Bicultural identity integration
Two components off bicultural identity integration
- Harmony vs conflict
- Blendedness vs compartmentalization
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