SAQ: Assimilation 

When writing about acculturation, the following concepts should be explained:

Acculturation: The psychological and behavioural adjustments that occur within individuals who come into contact with others from different cultural backgrounds.

Acculturative stress: The anxiety that one may feel when attempting to assimilate to a new culture.

Assimilation: the process in which a minority group or culture adopts the values, behaviors, and beliefs of the majority group.

Integration: The process in which an individual assumes the beliefs, values, and behaviours of another culture without losing the characteristics of his or her own culture.

Marginalization: A failure to acculturate when it is not really possible to maintain one’s original culture, but because of exclusion or discrimination, it is not possible to assimilate into the new culture.

Protective factors: Conditions or attributes in individuals, families, communities, or the larger society that help people deal more effectively with stressful events.

Separation: When migrants maintain their own culture and minimize contact with the new culture.

Lueck and Wilson

Aim: to investigate the variables that may predict acculturative stress in a nationally representative sample of Asian immigrant and Asian Americans

Procedure: \n the researchers carried out semi-structured interviews conducted either face-to-face or over the Internet by interviewers of a similar cultural/linguistic background of participants \n a random sample of participants was contacted to validate the data taken from the interviews \n the interviews measured the participants' level of acculturative stress, the impact of language proficiency, language preference, discrimination, social networks, family cohesion, and socioeconomic status on this stress

Findings: \n of the 2095 participants, 1433 were found to have acculturative stress (70%)