1. Multicultural Issues

2. Objectives Define acculturation Understand the typical experience of acculturation Distinguish between acculturation strategies Recognize variables that influence the ease of acculturation

3. Objectives Define acculturation Understand the typical experience of acculturation Distinguish between acculturation strategies Recognize variables that influence the ease of acculturation

4. Acculturation Process of learning & adjusting to a new culture Acculturation curve Honeymoon: excited about everything new culture shock: longing for old familiar things Adjustment: skilled @ navigating new environment

5. Acculturation Strategies Integration: keeping best of heritage culture but participating in new culture Assimilation: fully embrace new culture, leave behind old culture Separation: live in new culture but maintain heritage culture Marginalization: leaving behind old culture but not embracing new – not very likely

6. Cultural Adjustment Adjustment will be easier the less adjusting one has to do Cultural distance: similarity of old & new culture Language: ease of learning new language Cultural fit: similarity of the individual’s values & the host culture’s values (e.g., self-concept)

7. Objectives Understand the process of frame-switching Understand the concept of stereotype threat and identify situations which make someone susceptible

8. Multicultural People Blending: having attitudes averaged from your heritage culture & new culture Frame-switching: keeping distinct ways of thinking, speaking, and responding from both heritage and new culture & using either when appropriate Code switching: changing public behavior to fit in with the norms of that environment

9. Multicultural Challenges Stereotype threat Fear that you will fulfill a negative stereotype about your group leads to worse performance and the fulfillment of that stereotype

10. Cultural Analysis Japan or South Korea Thailand or Philipines or Singapore India Jordan or Pakistan Brazil or Peru Russia or Ukraine Portugal or Romania