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Acculturating? You Have Options!
John Berry's acculturation modelIt’s a special kind of discovery to learn your personal experience has an underpinning in academic theory. A paper by Jean Phinney, Gabriel Horenczyk, Karmela Liebkind,...
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My New Self in a New World
Kultur Shock, “House of Labor”, on Ministry of Kultur (2011) http://americanrobotnik.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/06-House-Of-Labor.mp3 My lies to myself Lies to my people Lies from my past, present,...
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Catching Up on the Acculturation Treadmill
Aside from being a wonderful English phrase, "learn something new every day" captures an immigrant’s experience to a tee. It feels good to understand your new home better, day by day. Until you hit the...
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Dick Clark and the Death of an Unknown Celebrity
Dick Clark passed away last week and the news left me unmoved. But as the narrative of Clark’s cultural impact unfolded over the next few days, once again I found myself scrambling on the acculturation...
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Immigration and Identity: Factors Affecting the Immigration Experience
Salman Akhtar’s “Immigration and Identity: Turmoil, Treatment, and Transformation” has shed a lot of light for me on the psychological experience of immigration. The book takes a psychoanalytical look...
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Immigration and Identity: Identity Transformation Following Immigration, Part 1
According to Salman Akhtar, writing in “Immigration and Identity: Turmoil, Treatment, and Transformation,” anxiety resulting from the culture shock and mourning over the losses inherent in immigration...
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Immigration and Identity: Identity Transformation Following Immigration, Part 2
This post completes the overview of Salman Akthtar’s “Immigration and Identity: Turmoil, Treatment, and Transformation.” Part 1 tackled factors affecting the immigration experience; Part 2 dealt with...
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The old folk knew then they would not come to belong, not through their own experience nor through their offspring. The only adjustment they had been able to make to life in the United States had been...
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