W-Curve
Excitement about a new culture overtakes the experience
What is anticipation?
Migrant values the host’s culture more than their origin culture (can be both voluntary and involuntary)
What is separation?
The individual and the environment co-define the assimilation process, including the attitudes and receptiveness of the host environment, the migrant communities within the host culture, and the psychological impact on the migrant.
What is the integrative theory of cultural adaptation?
Disorientation and discomfort from being in an unfamiliar environment.
What is culture shock?
Migrant places little value on either the host’s or their origin’s culture
What is marginalization?
This occurs as a result of the stress-adaptation-growth process.
What is intercultural-transformation?
Learning the verbal and nonverbal codes, values, norms, behaviors, and assumptions of the new culture.
What is adjustment?
Migrant values the host’s culture more than their origin culture (can be both voluntary and involuntary)
What is assimilation?
Process by which migrants unlearn some aspects of their culture origin.
What is Deculturation?
Migrant values both the host’s and their origin’s culture
What is integration?
Process by which migrants gain new information and insight about the norms and values of the culture and adapt their behaviors to the host culture.
What is Acculturation?