EDRD 2020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Acculturation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Environmental Design and Rural Development
• Course: EDRD 2020
• Professor: Professor Mary Perez

Document Summary

This is the acculturation strategies that all groups have, whether explicitly of implicitly, when they experience intercultural relations. Whether they are members of the dominant or non-dominant groups, immigrants or those already settled, individuals and groups hold preferences with respect to the particular ways in which they wish to engage their own and other groups. When examined among non-dominant ethnocultural groups that are in contact with a dominant group, these preferences have become known as acculturation strategies. When examined among the dominant group, and when the views held are about how non-dominant groups should acculturate, they have been called acculturation expectations ( berry, 2003). Finally, when examined among the dominant group, and when the views held are about how they themselves should change to accommodate the other groups now in their society, the strategy is assessed with a concept calledmulticultural ideology.