PSYC 3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Acculturation, Culture Shock, Test Of English As A Foreign Language
13 May 2018
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Multicultural Issues
• Liig i ultiultual olds issue: aultuatio: it’s a uestio of the ultue hagig as a
result of immigration.
o Whe ou look at the poess of aultuatio, it’s ideal to eseah it logitudiall. But
this is very expensive.
o People move to different cultures for many different reasons, mostly to have a better
quality of life:
▪ Safety and education, escaping conflict by claiming refugee status, family
reunification,
▪ Not always the case that all members of the family agreeing with immigration.
o What happens when you move to a new culture?
▪ It’s stessful. A kid of hage is stessful.
▪ Thee’s a patte that’s been observed of how this stress (acculturation stress)
works: U-shaped: eal o, ou hae a hoeoo stage that ight ou →
ou’e seeig e thigs ad epeiee e oppotuities. The ou hae:
ultue shok → hae to fid ok, fid a plae to lie he it’s eteel
epesie. The: adjustet → takes a log tie tpiall.
▪ Some people might never experience the honeymoon phase. They may have
aied i isis: take efugee → the isis ight ot esole he the aie
to the new culture. Or people who experience forced migration.
▪ What happes he ou go ak to the out of oigi? It’s also a U-shaped
patte → fist eited, the it’s diffiult to adjust. hage is alas diffiult →
still possible to experience culture shock even when going back to the culture
you came from.
▪ Adjustment phase sometimes not experienced: one study of immigrants to
japan showed an L-shaped curve. Japan has a very homogenous culture, not
multicultural, very closed cultural context.
o Who adjusts better to acculturation?
o Thee’s goa e osideale aiailit, ut if ou go eod idiidual leel ad look
at the general pattern: one important variable is cultural distance: how close is the
heritage culture to the host culture? We can look at this in terms of language,
geography, values, etc.
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