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Sep 1, 2021 · Although initial research in this area focused on minority members’ own acculturation orientations and adaptation (e.g., Berry, 1997), there is now a growing interest on investigating the majority society’s preferences for how minority members acculturate into the majority society (e.g., Arends-Tóth & Van de Vijver, 2003; Hillekens, Baysu ...
- Nali Moftizadeh, Hanna Zagefka, Ravinder Barn
- 2021
Oct 26, 2021 · The much more limited acculturation research on majority groups has primarily considered majority-group members’ resistance to changes in their culture and their expectations and preferences concerning how people who self-identify as immigrants or minority-group members should acculturate (Bourhis et al., 1997; Zárate et al., 2012). Research rarely considers the acculturative changes ...
- Jonas R. Kunst, Katharina Lefringhausen, David L. Sam, John W. Berry, John W. Berry, John F. Dovidio
- 2021
Mar 1, 2023 · Majority-group acculturation can be defined as “the cultural and psychological changes that current or former majority-group members experience and the cultural styles they adopt as a result of contact with people self-identifying as immigrants or ethnic minority-group members living in the same society” (Kunst, et al., 2021, p. 486
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Jul 19, 2021 · The present report suggests that personality traits may help explain how majority-group members acculturate and highlights avenues for future research. View full-text. Article.
Sep 16, 2024 · The perception of a group of immigrants as warm, suggesting cooperativeness and a prioritization of group interests over individual ones (Cislak & Wojciszke, 2008), coupled with a perception of morality, potentially indicating trustworthiness (Weiss et al., 2021), appears to enhance the willingness of majority-group members to adopt the cultural practices of otherwise unspecified immigrant ...
May 13, 2022 · Meanwhile, we do not know much about majority-group members’ acculturation preferences regarding their own culture (Kunst et al., 2021)—that is, members of the culturally dominant group within a specific geographical region due to status, demographic strength, and/or institutional support (Berry et al., 1977; Brown & Zagefka, 2011; Giles et al., 1977).
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These developments raise several salient and timely issues, including (a) how majority-group members’ cultural orientations change as a consequence of increasing intercultural contact due to shifting demographics; (b) what individual, group, cultural, and socio-structural processes shape these changes; and (c) what the implications of majority-group members’ acculturation are.