Acculturation

and read-without direct experiential correctives. Because the symbolic environment occupies a major part of people's everyday lives, much of the social construction of reality and shaping of social norm consciousness occurs through electronic acculturation (Jung…

Even though there are bunches of research touching upon international students’ intercultural adaptation, little research has touched on Chinese international students’ intercultural adaptation in Northern Florida. In Katherine & Dustin’s Accuracy of the United States regional personality stereotypes, the authors explored whether Americans can accurately describe how personality traits vary across regions of the United States. They presented the analyses documenting the strengths of regional…

Slavery is a system that has been around before written records existed. But this system has not been uniform in defining what a slave is nor if a slave has any privileges. Epitomising this is the Mesoamerican examples of the Aztecs and the Maya. While the Mayans’ slaves were hereditary, the Aztecs’ were personal, so slaves’ children were free. Moreover slaves could own other slaves in this society, very rare in slavery throughout the world. Consequently it is perhaps naïve to define slavery as…

Eric’s cognitive abilities were assessed through the use of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-V). The areas of cognitive processing ability measured include crystallized intelligence, short-term memory, visual-spatial processing, reasoning ability, and processing speed. The subtests measure different cognitive processing abilities, combining to form five index scores: Verbal Comprehension, Visual-Spatial, Fluid Reasoning, Working Memory and Processing Speed which all together…

Navajo gods and other supernatural powers are many and varied. Most important among them are a group of anthropomorphic deities, and especially Changing Woman or Spider Woman, the consort of the Sun God, and her twin sons, the Monster Slayers. Other supernatural powers include animal, bird, and reptile spirits, and natural phenomena or wind, weather, light and darkness, celestial bodies, and monsters. Navajo mythology is enormously rich and poetically expressive. (Advameg, Inc. © 2013). In…

Theoretical Perspectives on Self-Concept Self-Concept Theory:- Each of us have different personality, traits, abilities and preferences. Sometimes we cannot understand what is really going on inside of us. While we may not be able to exactly explain why we think this way, or why do we behave in that manner. Hence, the self-concept theory is a good foundational knowledge on the importance of our perceptions towards our personal existence. In this theory Rene Descartes (1644) said that a person’s…

not want to be judged on their color or looks. As a social worker we need to understand the discrimination they are faced with and know what their beliefs are. Have knowledge on immigration and migration discusses how to assess for levels of acculturation; examine cultural values; and explore prejudice work issues if any. Biases against other groups A cultural bias I can think of is marrying or dating someone of a different race as you. Mexican Americans are very proud of where they came…

There are several factors that can cause a student to have a lack of prior knowledge upon entering a new school system. In this case, the data analysis indicated that there were differences between the curriculum of Texas and Puerto Rico. As illustrated by the example presented in the previous chapter some of the math topics in the Texas curriculum were introduced at a different time in Puerto Rico. In addition, the complexity of the students’ objectives varied. Curriculum around the world can…

of these assimilation lessons. As higher education was developed in North America, opportunities for Native Americans were limited and often discouraged. State and federal governments were largely uninterested in the results of assimilation and acculturation in Native populations, despite the high college dropout rates of the 1950s and 1960s. The Civil Rights Movement allowed Native Americans an opportunity to address the adverse effects of European culture on their ability to access and succeed…

Who am I, this seems an easy question to answer until I must include my cultural knowledge. Culture is the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religions, notions of times, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving(Samovar & Porter, 2004). When I reflected on the identity wheel to define myself, I was able…