I have never really used the term "Inculturation" before. I was editing a doctoral paper of a friend of mine and saw he was using that term and was getting ready to correct him. He was, however, using the term correctly and I wasn't. Therefore, I am going to put this post here for my …
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This post makes the, controversial (?), suggestion that Lot lacked cultural flexibility, and that this led to his downfall. If curious, please read on. I was teaching a little seminar on Missionary Anthropology in Hong Kong a couple of days ago. I was talking about levels of acculturation--- the fact that we often go through …
Okay, so I was watching this guy on TV. He was some sort of talking head type guy on Fox News. (Disclaimer... I have no idea who this guy is. I really don't watch Fox News. I mean, I live in Asia--- so why would I?) He was telling a story about some town in …
The power of culture is the power of habit. How does this develop? Parents and other members of a community influence the next generation. One version of Bronfenbrenner's Human Ecological Model is shown above. The innermost circle is a child. The outermost circle can be thought of as the overall societal structure, institutions and culture …
I wrote a similar article previously. Perhaps this article here says it better.
J.W. Berry (1980) described 4 modes of acculturation. Assimilation. One's cultural identity is lost in the dominant culture Integration. One Seeks to integrate one's cultural identity with the dominant culture. Separation. One maintains one's unique cultural identity, rejecting the dominant culture. Marginalization. One loses important parts of own cultural identity, while having those parts …