Acculturation

Question 1

Culture

Answer 1

A cumulative set of knowledge, experiences, beliefs and behaviours shared by a group.

Question 2

Cultural norms

Answer 2

Shared and integrated patterns of beliefs and practices that characterise a cultural group. They are transmitted across generations and regulate behaviour in accordance with the group’s unique system.

Question 3

Assimilation

Answer 3

An individual abandons their original culture and adopts the cultural behaviours and values of their new culture.

Question 4

Integration

Answer 4

An individual has interest in adopting the behaviours and values of the new culture, while still maintaining the original culture.

Question 5

Marginalisation

Answer 5

Results when it is not really possible to maintain one’s original culture, but because of exclusion or discrimination, it is not possible to assimilate into the new culture.

Question 6

Separation

Answer 6

When migrants maintain their own culture and minimise contact with the new culture.

Question 7

Acculturative stress

Answer 7

The result of the tension between one’s own culture and their new culture.

Question 8

Acculturation gaps

Answer 8

Generational differences in acculturation and how this leads to conflict within the family.