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What is acculturation?
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The psychological and cultural change that happens when people from one culture meet another.
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Acculturation vs enculturation?
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Acculturation = adjusting to a new culture; enculturation = absorbing your own culture growing up.
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What is integration?
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Keeping your own culture and engaging with the new one — a balanced blend.
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What is assimilation?
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Giving up your own culture and fully adopting the new one.
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What is separation?
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Keeping your own culture and avoiding the new one.
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What is marginalisation?
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Rejecting or being excluded from both cultures — belonging to neither.
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Which strategies link to best and worst wellbeing?
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Integration = best; marginalisation = worst.
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What is acculturative stress?
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The stress of adapting to a new culture — language barriers, discrimination, lost support.
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Is the acculturation strategy a free choice?
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No — a hostile host society can push people towards separation or marginalisation.
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Which concept does acculturation link to?
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Change — contact with a new culture reshapes identity and behaviour over time.
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