Description
Acculturation Strategies and Host Culture Orientations: This activity encourages you to use the notion of acculturation strategies and host culture orientations to reflect on a personal experience.
Q1: Think about an experience you have had acculturating, or adjusting, to another culture. You may have traveled outside of your country or to an unfamiliar region of your own country. Perhaps you have spent time with an ethnic group or social class different from your own. For people entering an unfamiliar academic culture, adjusting to college may even involve acculturation. In the space provided below, describe your acculturation experience
Q2: Berry (2001) distinguishes four types of acculturation strategies:
Integration — The individual maintains his or her own cultural identity while at the same time becomes a participant in the host culture.
Assimilation — The individual gives up his or her own cultural identity and becomes absorbed into the host culture.
Separation — The individual maintains his or her own cultural identity and rejects involvement with the host culture.
Marginalization — The individual does not identify with or participate in either his or her own culture or the host culture.Q3: Berry (2001) also distinguishes four orientations of the host culture or society:Multiculturalism — The society values and fosters diversity.Melting Pot — The society seeks assimilation.Segregation — The society forces separation.Exclusion — The society imposes marginalization.Which of the four modes above best characterizes the orientation adopted by the host culture in your experience?