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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"ethnic culture"”.
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Ethnic culture and political participation : a study of Greeks in Australia 1926-1970
… deals with the political facets of the Greek sub-culture in Australia ever the period 1926-1970. Ideas on how far it is legitimate, expedient and possible for Greeks to participate in the Australian political process are identified and linked to assumptions and beliefs about the relationships of …
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Ethnic culture and political participation : a study of Greeks in Australia 1926-1970
… deals with the political facets of the Greek sub-culture in Australia ever the period 1926-1970. Ideas on how far it is legitimate, expedient and possible for Greeks to participate in the Australian political process are identified and linked to assumptions and beliefs about the relationships of …
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The influence of paternal autonomy-support upon ethnic culture identification among second-generation immigrants
… their family's country of origin (natal culture) and mainstream U.S. society (host culture). Although second generation immigrants desire to fit into the host society, their parents often demand that they adhere to norms and traditions of the natal culture. Previous studies have shown …
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The Maintenance Of Ethnic Culture And Manifestations Of Ethnic Identity In The Life Stories Of Finnish Immigrants
… of assimilation or if they have maintained their ethnic culture in the United States. More specifically, the purpose was to examine how the ethnic culture has been maintained and the ways that ethnic identity manifests itself in their life stories. Ten qualitative, semi-structured interviews were …
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Effect of Socialization on Ethnic Identity Formation While Participating in an Ethnic Social Organization
… the United States are trying to maintain their ethnic culture in the hope that their children will become a part of the culture. In order to do that, some parents take part in cultural organizations that try to promote the ethnic culture in the United States. This study investigated ethnic …
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The Role of Intangible Human Factors in Business Success in South Asian Ethnic Minority Small Businesses
… in small businesses, in general, and in ethnic minority small businesses, in particular, is scarce. The current study attempts to narrow this gap. Since it is impossible to study all the ethnic minority small businesses, this study uses a case study strategy that focuses on South Asian …
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Self-Esteem in Relation to Gender, Socioeconomic Status, Ethnic/Cultural Origin, Family Characteristics, and Academic Achievement in Middle School Students
… the variables of gender, socioeconomic status, ethnic/culture background, family characteristics, and academic achievement. The survey population consisted of 13,373 participants from 15 states. Nine middle school students were selected to participate in in-depth interviews. The majority of …
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The German Immigrant Experience in Late-Antebellum Kentucky
… mainstream American society, losing their former culture while making their own distinctive cultural contributions to the new society.1 Regarding the Germans specifically, historian Kathleen Neils Conzen has produced some superb work in recent years on the subject of ethnicity and assimilation.2 …
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Transformation within College Students Participating in a Cultural Awareness Program: Perceptions of Becoming Culturally Competent
… interact and assist people from culturally and ethnically diverse backgrounds (Sue, 2001). People who are culturally competent are aware of their own cultural background and the backgrounds of groups that are different. These individuals understand and appreciate a variety of cultures. Much of …
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Masculinized Labor Activism and Geographies of Household Reproduction in Thailand’s ‘Detroit’
… on their collective resources (i.e. the regional ethnic culture) and social reproductive network stretched across the geography of household reproduction, which sustain labor struggle strictly seen in the sites of production.</p>
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Food Consumption Similarities and Differences for Two Types of Jamaican Households
… with Jamaicans married to individuals from other ethnic groups. An integrated theoretical framework was developed combining ideas from Bourdieu, Barth’s ethnic boundary theory, Yosso’s cultural capital and Strauss’s negotiated order. There was a significant relationship between the two household …
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Life After an Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis: A Comparison of Stress and Coping Profiles of African American and Caucasian Caregivers
… research to date has studied the impact of culture on stress and coping for families after they are diagnosed. This study explored the relationship between caregiver’s ethnic culture and caregiver reports of stress and coping behaviors when caring for a child with autism. Specifically, this …
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The Role of Leisure in the Reproduction of Race and Ethnicity Among Korean Americans
… developed three different types of racialized ethnic identities: (a) diasporic ethnic identity---developed beyond the confines of a nation state and intermixed with assigned racial identity; (b) ethnic American identity---developed in reference to the American society and combined with assigned …
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Mentalized Affectivity and its Role in Acculturative Adjustment and Well-Being
… assessment of identification with either one’s ethnic culture or the dominant culture remains a robust way to capture acculturative adjustment (Chance, 2015). More recently, emotion regulation has emerged as an important construct in understanding wellbeing. Mentalized affectivity (MA) is an …
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Chinese American Women, Identity and Education: A Qualitative Study
… and negotiating with the interplay of race, ethnicity, class, and gender. Drawing on in-depth interviews with twenty-seven Chinese American women from two universities located on the East Coast, I argue that their segmented assimilation processes involving ongoing negotiations between …
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Branch Campus Classroom Expectations: An Ethnographic Study of Transnational Faculty and Students in Qatar
… education, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism, culture, fundamental attribution error, and teaching and learning and educational technology in Arab Gulf nations is critically reviewed for this study. The study had four phases of data collection: (1) an initial online questionnaire about cultural …
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Padania or Northern Italy? The invention of a national community in the words of the Lega Nord
… The study seeks to explore what cultural and ethnic characteristics of northern Italians (here called 'Padani) are said to distinguish them from both southern Italians and immigrants from abroad. The case of 'Padania' is then referred back to contemporary theories of nationalism and …
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An analysis of the Dongba arts and culture in the context of tourism
… tourism development and the Naxi dongba culture. The link between tourism and culture is demonstrated by the effects of modernity and globalisation, resulting in the loss of traditional social orders and the commodification of culture (Giddens, 1990). However, ethnic culture and identity …
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Education in Paradise: Learning for Profitable Employment Among the Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
… where most of them found employment in agriculture or in related fields. Traditionally bound to the land, the Amish in Lancaster County are currently confronted with the problem of urbanization and soaring prices for available acreage. Family size makes their situation even more acute, for …
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Mokinių laisvalaikio organizavimo edukaciniai ir socialiniai aspektai /
… and its influence for abilities development; the culture of children free time – the problems and perspectives of socialization process. Recreation is also the sociocultural part of extracurricular education. In this work there are also discussed the trends of extracurricular education (the …