| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Acculturation | historically defined as one culture moving to a new (different) culture. |
| types of places to move to | cultural, homogenous, diverse, expatriate |
| cultural neightborhood | same culture language tradition, little change required |
| homogenous neighborhood | every same except them they stand out appear different |
| diverse neighborhood | all different ethnicities together |
| expatriate neighborhood | place of immigrants from all over, people who also recently imigrated |
| the acculturation curve | 1. honeymoon state- 1st few months 2. crisis of culture shock stage- 6-18 months 3. Adjustment stage-extends over years |
| cultural distance | the difference between two cultures in their overall ways of life |
| The L shaped curve, Hsiao-Ying 1995 | the more homogenouse or same the culture is the longer it takes to adjust |
| Ward and Kennedy | 1. Malaysian students in Singapore 2. malaysian students in new Zealand 3. students in singapore reported fewer difficulties |
| Berry and Annis | the more perminant the indigenous people where the lower stress of acculturating |
| blending | self concept that is a combination or blend of their cultures |
| frame switching | solf concept that switches back and forth between different cultural selves depending on the context. |
| code switching | where they switch between the rules at school to the rules on the street |
| Hong et al | when differnt in american or chinese prime frame switched to explain the fish |
| monocultural frame switching | even individuals who are from one cultural background can be primed to think in ways that are characteristic of either individualist or collectivist |
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