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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Acculturate"”.
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Acculturation of Armenian immigrants
… study researched Armenian immigrants ability to acculturate to life in the United States. Armenian immigrants face a number of challenges when first arriving to the United States and adjusting to American culture. The challenges stem from relational areas such as communication, family …
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The Influence of Acculturation on Meanings of Marriage for Iranian-American Women
… the dynamics of Iranian marriage as women acculturate into Western norms and the implications of these experiences for those who work with them in their adjustment process. With the growing population of Iranian immigrants in the United States there is a need to understand the behaviors and …
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Cultural Competency, Recruitment, And Retention In The International School: A Symbiotic Relationship
… (1) How do current international school leaders acculturate new faculty with a specific focus on local host country culture to encourage retention of effective teachers in the international setting? (2) What specific practices do current international leaders use to integrate host country …
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An ecological systems theory approach to academic acculturation of female international students from the Arab Gulf
… how institutions can support students as they acculturate to their academic programs and responds to the problematized notion that they should be expected to acculturate. Implications include calls to increase hospitality towards international students on the part of students, faculty, and at …
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The Lived Experiences of Filipino Teachers Teaching in Texas: A Transcendental Phenomenological Study
… the support systems that helped them adapt and acculturate, and their perceived differences between Filipino and US values and culture. While most of the findings correlate with existing literature, the experiences shared about extreme microaggression and the magnitude of the mental health …
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Predicting Alcohol And Substance Abuse Treatment Outcomes Among Hispanic And African American Substance Abusers
… experiencing higher levels of pressure to acculturate related to difficulty in interpersonal interactions due to language or cultural barriers and encountering prejudice had higher levels of substance use consequences at the outcome of treatment. These findings suggest that cultural factors …
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“LIFE IS VERY HARD HERE”: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CENTRAL AMERICAN MIGRANTS IN EL NORTE AND ENRIQUE’S JOURNEY
… and customs must be compromised in order to acculturate in the United States.</p>
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How did we get here? Interrelations of substance use, segmented assimilation, and dimensions of emerging adulthood among 1st and 2nd generation Latinx emerging adults.
… when parents/primary caregivers and children acculturate to the host society at significantly different rates. Consonant acculturation occurs when parents/primary caregivers and children acculturate to the host society at roughly the same pace. Finally, selective acculturation is effectively a …
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The acculturation gap: Investigating the relationship between inter-partner acculturation discrepancy and parenting quality
… that when members within a family context acculturate at different rates, to different degrees, or in different ways than other members, this discrepancy results in conflict. The present study evaluated the relationship between inter-partner acculturation discrepancy and perceptions of …
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Strangers, sojourners, selves: the intercultural communication experiences of ethnic Chinese students in western tertiary education
… renegotiation of social worlds and the desire to acculturate. By contrast, the undergraduate students from Malaysia, who saw their future in their first cultures, demonstrated a going back mentality and less desire to accommodate and understand the host society. Thus, the study contributes towards …
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Troubling Literacy in the "Contact Zone" of a Rural High School English Class
… that students do not simply assimilate or acculturate, but contest, appropriate, resist, and use to harass and oppress others, even as they accomplish school literacy assignments.
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A Multi-Site Case Study: Acculturating Middle Schools to Use Data-Driven Instruction for Improved Student Achievement
… of ten common steps administrators can use to acculturate their school or school division with the data-driven instruction process.
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A New Life in Montana: The Laotian Hmong -- their History, Culture and American Journey
… community of Missoula Montana. How did they acculturate to such a very different environment from what they had known in Laos, and how successful have they been in America up to this time? The Hmong were among the most recent émigrés to America’s shores, and though their experience was …
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A New Life in Montana: The Laotian Hmong -- their History, Culture and American Journey
… community of Missoula Montana. How did they acculturate to such a very different environment from what they had known in Laos, and how successful have they been in America up to this time? The Hmong were among the most recent émigrés to America’s shores, and though their experience was …
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The Association of Age at Immigration with Endorsing Feeling Depressed Among Immigrant Adults in the US
… Those who immigrate at a younger age tend to acculturate more easily to the dominant culture. Using National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys from 2015 to 2018, we investigate whether age at immigration is associated with endorsing face-valid depression severity among a sample of …
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Experiences of pregnancy, childbirth and post-partem period in urban and suburban immigrant Pakistani women
… a healthy immigrant effect. As immigrants acculturate and absorb dominant cultural norms (measured by proxy variables such as language preference, employment, smoking and alcohol consumption), their health status deteriorates. There is a need to understand how immigrants adapt to a changed …
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“If you wanted me to speak your language then you should have stayed in your country”: a critical ethnography of linguistic identity and resiliency in the life of an Afghan refugee
… to cultivate a dual identity that allows her to acculturate into American society and maintain a cultural integrity that is coherent with her worldview and sense of self. Finally, Nasreen’s use of her mother tongue with her children—even though they refuse to speak it back—enables her to mother …
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Perceptions and experiences of distress among older Pakistanis in Bradford
… but many have been unable or unwilling to acculturate to British society. The life expectations these Punjabi immigrants have been unmet, and there is widespread emotional distress among them. While there are statutory mental healthcare services available to them which could help manage …
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Trappers and Traders in the Keewatin: The Fur Trade as an Agent of Acculturation
… consistent with an awareness that change, both acculturate and otherwise, is a pervasive phenomenon, permeating many areas of material, cultural and social existence. It is intended that this chosen mode of analysis will throw the historical facts of cultural contact in the Fur Trade years into …
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When shall these dry bones live?' : interactions between the London Missionary Society and the San along the Cape's North-Eastern Frontier, 1790-1833
… means to 'see' how the San did in fact adapt and acculturate in response to colonial processes of land dispossession and water alienation. By evaluating the motivations behind the founding of these mission institutions and by examining the numerous factors that resulted in the failure or closure …
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