FSCN 3615 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Brown Bread, White Bread, Acculturation
22 Feb 2018
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Lecture 1- jan 16 blending between cultures. religion) of a host or dominant group. Acculturation: the process of social, psychological, and cultural change that stems from. Indicates a groups progression of adopting cultural patterns (language, beliefs, Individuals obtain, maintain, and/or abandon values and behaviors of original or. Typically the 1st generation immigrants remain emotionally connected to their. Assimilation: when people from one cultural group shed their ethnic identity and fully culture of origin but allow their children to pick up pieces of the new cultures host culture merge into the majority culture. Generally doesn"t occur 1st gen, usually 2nd or 3rd. Ethnocentrism: the attitude that one"s own ethnic group, nation, or culture is superior to all others. Could be done in conscious or unconscious belief. Opposite is ethnorelativism, understanding values and behaviors from a cultural perspective, rather than as right or wrong. Bread represents the body of christ during communion.
