Acculturation

Final Exam Answer #3: Milton Gordon has stated that there are stages of assimilation, and those stages help out minority groups to integrate successfully within society. The study of assimilation has also been studied in conjunction with pluralism, because many people feel that the studies of pluralism and assimilation are similar. Assimilation and pluralism both deal with research that correlates with information pertaining to how various minority groups interact differently and engage…

Being in acculturation, it is understandable that international students may encountered with various life changes. These changes have the potential to become stressors, if an individual takes the process of assimilating the changes as a challenge (Smith & Khawaja, 2011). Acculturative stress is describes as a reaction of stress in response to life changes that are generated in the experience of acculturation, the psychological challenges of adaption to a new…

eventually becomes a part of the American culture. Appropriation is defined as “taking something for one’s own use” (Webster). An example of appropriation is if someone builds a tree house but someone else takes all the credit for building it. Lastly, acculturation is defined as the “process of adopting the cultural traits or social patterns of another social group”. (Webster) This is similar…

outsiders-insiders. Superfluous and unnecessary, the hyphenation of Americans, creates suspicion of national allegiance, preserves prejudices rather than overcoming them, and threatens to defile the unique American culture created through assimilation and acculturation. Propagated by the invocation of politically correct multiculturalism and overly liberal immigration policies; it creates a society that is disunited and in direct opposition of the American national motto of E Pluribus Unum –…

Negative Socio-cultural impacts Commodification One of the most common negative socio-cultural impacts of tourism is commodification. The dictionary definition of commodification is to make something into an object for commercial use. In terms of tourism, commodification refers to using a place's culture and the cultural artifacts of that particular place to make money and generate profit either to support its economy or for personal gain. In other word, tourism can turn local cultures into…

normal striving for independence combines with the powerful acculturation to the American cultural value of individualism…. The combination may produce an exacerbated and intensified interfamilial conflict in which parents and adolescents feel alienated from each other” (Buki 169). This major issue confronted by immigrant children and their families is the acculturation gap that emerges between generations over time. The acculturation is the cause of conflicts in Amy Tan’s story and mostly in…

America, it opened my mind on various things that I would not think about on my own. These are details I just do not take the time to reflect upon. It really taught me to pay attention to the obvious. In short, my paper will focus on the concepts of acculturation and assimilation in regards to Muslims in America. I have noticed these concepts in the books and articles we have read in this class. In the book entitled A History of Islam in The America by Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, he discusses the…

How does acculturation and acculturation stress affect immigrant parents? What factors influence the entry of children of immigrants into the child welfare system? How does culture affect parenting styles? These preliminary questions helped in sorting out the themes that will…

subject which by the very nature of its content, has the potential to affect how a person will feel every moment of every day for the rest of his or her life (Templin & Richard, 2014 p.435).” The quote played a prominent role throughout Richard's acculturation. Ultimately, one’s health will propel them every day. The article has transferability towards me because I am PETE student, and I have the utmost respect towards physical education. While reading, I assessed my…

much of the data examine the impact of interpersonal interaction and mass media on acculturation. What this means in her words is that she found social communication in the host culture, combined with reasonable and successful ethnic support, provide cultural knowledge and skills and emotional stability to acculturate successfully. Shuter argues that Kim integrates mass media into her model, arguing that acculturation is influenced by the nature, type and frequency of media consumption…