Culture – the way of life of a group of people passed down from one generation to the next through learning
Enculturation – learning our native culture(s) in childhood
Acculturation – adapting to another culture
Culture shock – the stress associated with acculturation

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Multicultural NoVa

Loving this WaPo article about how the Muslim and Latino communities in NoVa are banding together. It just warms my heart, especially given all the anti-immigrant rhetoric and xenophobia we hear these days. What a great example of the salad-bowl theory of American acculturation (as opposed to the melting pot, which assumes that new arrivals will adopt the culture of the dominant group, ie WASPs).
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