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Human Migration and the Acculturation of Minorities

Robert Smither

Department of Psychology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218.

Majority-minority relations have historically taken the forms of elimination, segregation, fusion, assimilation, or pluralism. Cultural pluralism, which is the dominant ideology in the world today, is based upon the assumptions of tolerance on the part of the majority and a willingness to learn on the part of the minority. This process of learning is called acculturation. Modern theories of acculturation have tended to neglect the importance of individual differences in the process of adaptation. The socioanalytic model, based upon psychological role theory and studies of natural language, offers a model of acculturation which accounts for individual differences as well as situational factors which affect acculturation.

Human Relations, Vol. 35, No. 1, 57-68 (1982)
DOI: 10.1177/001872678203500105
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