Acculturation

Challenge of expatriation acculturation Failure situations during international assignments happen in nearly every multinational firm. In fact, the acculturation process is based on several variables that the expatriate has to deal with, and during the same period of time (H.Hays, 1974): the local environment representing all the factors linked to the specific foreign environment, the task, representing all the factors linked to the specific job that have to be performed, and the individual,…

LITERATURE REVIEW Immigrant acculturation Immigrant parents have challenges in parenting and rearing their children, as well as living in a new society. Research shows that child behavior problems are affected by parent-child interaction and the quality of parenting (Abidin, 1995) which are influenced by parents’ life events (Olds, 1988; Webster-Stratton & Taylor, 2001), such as moving into a new society (Berry, 1997). Besides, connectedness with the society of settlement is another area…

Today?s immigrant youth is experiencing problems of understanding what acculturation is, and how it impacts them. Huq, Stein and Gonzalez on the article ?Acculturation Conflict Among Latino Youth: Discrimination, Ethnic Identity, and Depressive Symptoms? clarify that acculturation is part of multiple stressors including adaptation stress, discrimination, parent-adolescent conflict and economic stress. Many teens faced parent-adolescent conflict that is ?a relevant stressor across ethnic groups?…

Through any assimilation or acculturation process, it is difficult to let go of what is important to you and the culture you come from. In both assimilation and acculturation, the minority group of individuals is being integrated into the majority group. The different between the two is that assimilation leads to the culture losing their ties and become indistinguishable with the majority culture. On the other hand, acculturation keeps the ties of their culture and making themselves distinct as…

Family theories are a fundamental part of this course and symbolical interactionism theory and acculturation theory are two of many theories covered thus far. Symbolic interactionism covers concepts such as the development of self, identity, and roles. Acculturation theory elaborates on topics such as impact of migration, acculturative stress, and cultural brokering. Symbolic interactionism theory is one of many theories studied in this course that explains how individuals learn about the rules…

In support of this claim, Voegeli Juste-Constant’s article, “Haitian Popular Music in Montreal: The Effects of Acculturation” explores the unique way in which music, seen as a reflection of the Haitian culture, can evolve a community of Canadians and Haitians together through a shared cultural value. The piano-bars are the spaces where this transformation takes place. Juste-Constant affirms, “Haitian popular music has reflected the fortunes of the expatriate Haitian community. On the one hand,…

On the other side was the historical view, which Boas ascribed to. In this, culture dispersed (or communicated) throughout societies. Some proposers of diffusion stated that inventions emerged from a source, then diffused to other civilisations over time. They began from the same geographic locale and hence had similarities. Some went further with this hypothesis by claiming that man was essentially a mimic (Smith, 1916; F. Graebner: 191). Therefore, true invention occurred rarely, and many…

cultural and ethnic changes due to Hellenization. One of the most significant ethnic changes for the Jews in Alexandria was the Septuagint, a transliteration of the Torah out of its initial primary language (Hebrew), to Greek. However, this act of acculturation mainly occurred to escalate faithfulness towards the Torah and Jewish religion because the Alexandrian Jews were going to synagogue, but they were losing meaning and understanding in the Torah since they could not understand the language…

The article “Where Italians Speak Ladin” can serve as a case study for acculturation, Folk vs Popular culture, and isogloss. This is shown through the Ladin’s use of computer-assisted machines, costumes, busses, and the environment around them. In this article there were many examples of acculturation. The most prominent example of this was the different ways that those in Ladin carve wood. “The old skills are still alive. While several workshops with computer-assisted machines turn out wooden…

1. Introduction: One of the many outcomes of globalization is the migration of individuals across boundaries in search of employment, opportunities and a sustainable quality of life. ‘Travel’ has become more accessible to the population on account of the diplomatic and political alliances which have removed the political barriers between nations. South Africa too has witnessed an influx of individuals from different nations, religions, cultures and ethnicity adding to the diversity of the…