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Self-Development and Relationships through Acculturation
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In this paper, the authors shed some light on difficulties experienced by Asian immigrant adolescents in North America while undergoing self-development and social relationships within the larger stream of acculturation processes.Abstract:
The present paper sheds some light on difficulties experienced by Asian immigrant adolescents in North America while undergoing self-development and social relationships within the larger stream of acculturation processes. Given the strong emphasis placed by their original culture on collectivity and hierarchical harmony within the family, and given the family’s evolving lifestyle as new immigrants in the new society, immigrant parents do not sufficiently promote the adolescent’s sense of self to grow toward full independence. Faced with the different cultural practices of the broader society, both the parents and the adolescents in immigrant families need to shape new cultural rules to negotiate their social interactions in order for their relationships to develop continuously. Immigrant parents need not fear the apparently widening intergenerational distance following migration, since their children retain their core values of family loyalty and respect for parents. Instead, it is recommended that they ...read more
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The omnicultural imperative
TL;DR: In this article, the main traditional policies for managing relations between diverse groups, assimilation and multiculturalism, are critically reviewed and found wanting, and omniculturalism is considered as an alternative policy; in stage one, the omnicultural imperative demands that during interactions with others we give priority to human commonalities.
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Identity and acculturation: the case of naturalised citizens in Britain
TL;DR: In this paper, a dialogical approach to knowledge construction and identity is proposed for understanding acculturation as an ongoing process, not a single static outcome, and participants negotiate their position within this representational field by engaging in dialogical negotiation between identity positions.
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Achievement and Ambition Among Children of Immigrants in Southern California
TL;DR: The Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS) as discussed by the authors has been used to study the educational performance and social, cultural and psychological adaptation of children of immigrants, the "new second generation" now growing up in American cities.
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Commentary: Liminality in Acculturation and Pilgrimage: When Movement Becomes Meaningful:
TL;DR: In psychology, human beings on the move have been traditionally neglected to concentrate on fixed structures as mentioned in this paper ; however, human movement entails both local/short-term and distant/long-term journeys to unfamiliar lands.
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Catalysts and Regulators of Psychological Change in the Context of Immigration Ruptures
Irini Kadianaki,Tania Zittoun +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show how the concept of catalysis can be used to understand the conditions that bring about change and support the emergence of new psychological phenomena following psychological ruptures, such as that of immigrating.
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