Chapter 8

Question 1

assimilation

Answer 1

forget original culture and adopt host culture

Question 2

Cultural shock

Answer 2

-A relatively short-term feeling of disorientation and discomfort due to the lack of familiar cues in the environment.

Question 3

Cultural adaptation

Answer 3

• learning the rules and customs of new cultural contexts.

Question 4

what are the four stages of cultural adaptation?

Answer 4

1. anticipation (honeymoon stage) - excitement; down play negative emotions. (first few days or weeks)
2. culture shock - frustration, isolation, and homesickness, idealize home culture. (6-8 weeks or longer)
3. adjustment- still adjusting and feel a little bit of an outsider, feel normal again and become more comfortable; accept and tolerate.
4. acceptance (bicultural)- feel at home, and appreciate and many things you will miss. function equally in both cultures.

Question 5

Liminality

Answer 5

-The experience of being from and between two or more cultural positions.

Question 6

multicultural identities

Answer 6

-A sense of in-betweenness that develops as a result of frequent or multiple cultural border crossings.

Question 7

Third culture kids (TCK)

Answer 7

A person who has spent a significant part of their developmental years outside their Parents’s culture.

Question 8

U-Curve Model

Answer 8

-a model that depicts the transition from one culture to another.
it has four stages:
1. Anticipation
2. culture shock
3. adjustment
4. acceptance

Question 9

W-Curve Model

Answer 9

-The process of re-adapting to one’s home culture
-reverse culture shock / re-entry shock
Going to a new cultural environment
1. anticipation phase
2. culture shock phase
3. adjustment phase
4. Initial re-entry high
“I’m going home!!”
4. Initial re-entry high
5. Reverse culture shock
6. Adjustment phase

Question 10

Integration

Answer 10

Retain original culture and adopt elements of host culture

Question 11

Separation

Answer 11

Retain original culture and keep a distance from host culture

Question 12

Marginalization

Answer 12

Reject original culture and reject host culture

Question 13

Sojourners

Answer 13

-People who move into new cultural contexts for a limited period of time and for a specific purpose, such as for study or business.

Question 14

Reverse culture shock

Answer 14

Emotional and psychological distress suffered by some people when they return home after a number of years overseas

Question 15

Global nomads

Answer 15

-people that move from country to country often for whatever the reason.

Question 16

Immigrant

Answer 16

-a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence

Question 17

Migrant

Answer 17

-an individual who leaves the primary cultural contexts in which he or she was raised and moves to a new cultural context for an extended period.
-two groups:
voluntary migrants- sojourners and immigrants.
unvoluntary migrants- long-term refugees and short-term refugees.

Question 18

Segregation

Answer 18

-The policy or practice of compelling groups to live apart from each other.
-especially of racial groups

Question 19

long-term refugees

Answer 19

-People who are forced to relocate permanently because of war, famine, and oppression.

Question 20

Short-term refugees

Answer 20

-People who are forced for a short time to move from their region or country.