PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: New Culture Movement, Acculturation, Culture Shock
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Not a simple answer because michaelle has been populated by people from many different parts of the globe and a number of different countries & hence has been exposed to a diverse array of cultural messages. Today there are no societies which include people from only one cultural background, even the most homogeneous societies contain individuals with different cultural heritages, traditions, religions, & languages. Worldwide, about 130m people are living in countries in which they weren"t born in (= to population of japan) U. s. = 10% population has moved there from another country: 59% of latino-american children, 90% of asian americans children are either born outside the u. s. or are second-generation residents. A few centuries ago, you rarely ever saw diverse people in a country, it was so much simpler to do research back then. Acculturation; process by which people migrate to and learn a culture that is different from their original (or heritage) culture.
