What Is Cultural Acculturation

India Bookhart

Intercultural/ Intl Communication

Professor Onuzulike

27 October 2017

Coculturation: Toward A Critical Theoretical Framework of Cultural Adjustment

Developing a face within a new environment is challenging. Which in many cases can be a result in an identity crisis, which is defined to be, a period of uncertainty and confusion in which a person's sense of identity becomes insecure, typically due to a change in their expected aims or role in society. Although the move to America is for a positive gain there are also some negative effects inflicted upon the lives of immigrants. Being faced discrimination, possibilities of poverty and broken homes immigrants still make the decision to place themselves self in subsequent societies. Melissa L. Curtin stresses the sensitivities of “Coculturation: Toward A Critical Theoretical Framework of Cultural Adjustment” as well as highlighting the discourses of assimilation and theories of coculturation/acculturation.

Before Curtin gives readers an understanding of her philosophy of the framework of cultural adjustment. Curtin goes into great depths of the theoretical approach of Berry’s four acculturation strategies, Bourhis’ Interactive Acculturation Model (IAM), Kim’s Stress-Adaptation-Growth model and Bennett's Developmental Model of Intercultural

This transition from one cultural background to another due to refugee for a better life. In most cases, refugees wash ashore on America sole, in hopes of a better future. For not only themselves but children and future generations. The transition resulting in diaspora (a seek for exile). Ethnic groups such as those of Latino descent can be deprived of their racial ethnicity seeing that there are boundaries and regulating rules set for newcomers. Host cultures in America foresee for these newcomers to abide by them or struggle in minority class