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- 1. Chapter 13, part 2 Adapting to Diversity: Culture Shock
- 2. Stages in Culture Shock Adaptation stage – starts to identify more with the new country and its members; develop relationships with its members Reentry stage – returning to home culture; reverse culture shock
- 4. Inventory of Reentry Problems Cultural Social Linguistic National and political Educational Professional (p 257)
- 5. Acculturation The process of learning and adjusting to a new set of behaviors (in the adaptation stage of culture shock) (p 258) Taking over traits of another culture; physical, biological, cultural, social, psychological
- 6. Personal Developments of Acculturation Cultural adjustment – feelings of comfort in the new culture Identification – a sense of belonging to the new culture Cultural competence – willingness to learn the language and increase knowledge of the new culture Role enculturation – adopts the behaviors associated with role in new culture (p 258-9)
- 7. Communication and Acculturation Four dimensions to test adaptability: Emotional resilience Flexibility / openness Perceptual acuity Personal autonomy
- 8. Coping on a Short-Term Basis Nonacceptance Substitution Addition Synthesis Resynthesis
- 9. Assimilation and Pluralism Assimilation – the process in which immigrants become absorbed into the native population through convergence Cultural patterns disappear Cultures blend Some patterns become part of the dominant culture (p 261)
- 10. Theories of Assimilation The Anglo-Conformity theory – expectation that immigrants will completely renounce their culture The Melting Pot theory the blending, creating something new (p 261)
- 11. Cultural Pluralism Maintaining the separate and distinct parts of cultural groups