Acculturation and multiculturalism

9 important questions on Acculturation and multiculturalism

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

Measures how well bicultural people manage their cultural identities and how compatible the cultures are. Scoring high on the BII is usually associated with better and more healthy outcomes.

Two components off bicultural identity integration

  • Harmony vs conflict
  • Blendedness vs compartmentalization

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