Acculturation

advantage, specifically: family structure and relations, nativity characteristics, stressors, culture and cohesion, and early educational involvement. “Children and adolescents in immigrant families face several challenges” (Mood, 1) such as acculturation, discrimination, socioeconomic deprivation and contradictory expectations from individuals and groups around them (in regards of norms and behaviors). Despite these disadvantages, immigrant children are found to perform as well in academics…

The Melting pot theory … “a place where a variety of races, cultures, or individuals assimilate into a cohesive world '(Webster Dictionary, n.d.). Some people think this is the way new immigrants to our country should act. They should learn english and try to blend in. The blending in of other cultures to create one unified culture is what makes America a melting pot. This is American culture where anyone is welcomed to join and become apart of one nation. The Salad Bowl theory… “the…

Family Wellness: Survival Skills for Healthy Families is a psycho-educational program that is designed to help families strengthen their relationships and support healthy ways of interacting (SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices, 2014). It is a quickly learned and easily adapted program, which has been proven effective for various cultures, languages, and communities (“Survival Skills and Tools For Families,” n.d.). The goal for Family Wellness is to help improve…

In the essay written by Catherine Pigott, Chicken-Hips it is quite evident that the processes of acculturation of an american raised had taken place through external pressure and discomfort. Infact, the process had taken such a toll on the author as she describes the returning experience as stressful, and as though the sudden change in external values caused a great deal of distress. As it would be for one whom modified and adjusted to a social norm so utterly different from that of which you…

I enjoyed the readings for this week on the topic of international and immigrant students with relation to my own experiences as an immigrant. From the readings and my own research of qualitative studies on these groups of students, international and immigrant students, to a certain extent, share some aspects of student experience in PSE in terms of language and cultural barriers, which may hinder student development and success. But, I would like to focus my reflection on immigrant student…

Identity, Perceived Support, and Depressive Symptoms Among Racial Minority Immigrant-Origin Adolescents? compares racial minority immigrants that are foreign born vs. U.S born. She bases her study on two concepts acculturation stress hypothesis and immigration optimism hypothesis. Acculturation stress hypothesis places foreign born minorities at a higher stress level when compared to U.S born minorities. In contrast, immigrant optimistic hypothesis, focuses on ?immigrant optimistic, or the…

immigration is rooted in numerous different subjects such as political science and anthropology as well as others. Berry puts forward the idea that psychology as two areas of potential contribution to this topic, the first being acculturation and the second intergroup relations. Acculturation involves contact between two different cultural groups, this contact or interaction between these group results in cultural changes between both groups. The article describes the second area, intergroup…

a significant issue for their integration into a new environment. Pires et al. (2006) highlight that when the differences between the hosts’s mainstream culture and the new arrival’s home culture is wider, then the new arrival’s challenges of acculturation are higher. Immigrants from ESB face fewer hurdles than immigrants from NESB (Junankar and Mahuteau, 2005; Kler, 2006; Green et al., 2007; Syed and Murray, 2009). It can be argued that since English is more practiced in countries like…

People acculturate with another culture differently and some elements impact the acculturation adjustment (Heine, 2012). One factor that may help Mary and her family’s adapting to the Japanese culture is that there might be less cultural distance because they moved from San Francisco. According to United States Census Bureau, Asian is the…

The historical events that determined how Islam came to be in America depict a very interesting take on the fast-growing religion. Being a Muslim myself, I never knew that Muslims’ from the Northern and Western parts of Africa brought Islam to America, along with their struggles and hard times of slavery. On the contrary I had thought they emigrated from the Middle East much later on just as many of our ancestors and European colonists did. I believe that it is very important for us to…