ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Acculturation, Bsc Young Boys, Polynesian Outlier
10 Dec 2020
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In all societies, basic distinctions exist between individuals in terms of age and gender. Often, what people can or cannot do, may or may not do, may or may not say, is linked to their memberships into social groups defined by their gender and their age. In multicultural societies, other factors such as race, ethnicity and indigeneity have provided additional ways of classifying" people according to their skin colour, ethnic origin and native status. Clearly, when people are part of a cultural group they are not passive recipients of prepackaged systems of meanings, behaviour and thought. As individuals, they develop their own opinions and ideas. Individuals in a culture engage the dominant culture according to gender, class, experience, age, etc. And this process is often what leads them to have different visions of what their culture is. Some fully approve of the dominant model and embrace it while others reject it.
