IBUS6002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Trans-Cultural Diffusion, Dominant Culture, Culture Shock
7 Sep 2018
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Multicultural societies / countries: ca(cid:374)ada: (cid:1007)(cid:1007) eth(cid:374)i(cid:272) groups. Dominant culture: i(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)trast to homogeneous japan, korea, italy, poland. Creolization: likely in countries that protect their culture against outside influences and insist that immigrants assimilate into their society and respect their values. Adapting to host country and dilution of original dominant culture. Reacculturation: reverse culture shock, moving back to home country, or another new country. Social categorizations that allow us to cope with cognitive limitations. Perceiver: motivational and cognitive reasons - judgement (may be unaware) Reaction, convenience, traits, association, generalisation, accepted conventional wisdom over time. Target stereotype threat : members are stigmatized and negatively stereotyped risk being judged undermine performance and aspirations. Racial stereotyping has been found to handicap african-american and latino candidates in negative ways. Seemingly positive stereotyping may not be really positive asians have a reputation for diligence received favourable treatment in high school but faced other struggles.
