Hello All!
My wife and I, along with our kids, will be moving to Barcelona from the US within the next year or two (COVID19 vaccines permitting).
What are the best books, movies, TV shows, and music to consume in the interim? We’d like to acculturate and get ourselves somewhat culturally prepared ahead of time.
I speak Spanish/Castellano, my wife and kids speak German, and we all Speak English. I’m in the process of teaching the kids Spanish (they’re all under 7 years old).
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i was wondering if any of you was kind enough to tell me where i can download the epub (light novel) version of this awesome manga!
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It only takes 10 minutes and is especially interesting for language and culture enthusiasts. The survey is used in order to possibly come up with significant results in a new identity research branch. Thank you all !
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Does it matter by when you acculturate VET for master node? I hear conflicting reports that you need to have all VET in MEW by Dec 21 2017? or is it 2018? And what if you slowly accumulate VET you can't opt-in to a master node if you hit a certain master node level let's say in summer of 2018?
I am not sure (or think) anyone really know the answer.
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For example, reptiles that hatch and immediately are on their own, or how spiders know how to build webs and where to build them.
https://bbs.wenxuecity.com/sat/5479588.html
The previous is a post about how to get into various elite universities via the athletic recruitment route. It's on wenxuecity, a Chinese diaspora forum. My Chinese is very basic, so I use the Zhongwen extension to translate on the fly.
It's funny - I bet the vast majority of these Chinese people are not teaching their kids how to speak, read, or write Mandarin. Or, if they are, they are only teaching them very very basic Chinese. Furthermore, because their Chinese is so basic, their kids probably don't have the fluency to feel confident enough to move back to China on their own accord. This effectively FORCES their Chinese American kids to assimilate with very little effort on the parents' part to acculturate - to balance the assimilation into American culture with a strong understanding of Chinese language and culture.
I suppose the alternative for many Chinese American kids would be a life similar to this, where upon graduation, the get a job in a n-tier city making 1-3k USD a month - what I don't understand is why do the parents' force their kids to become Chinese American? Or at least, why don't they at least explain to their kids what the alternative is? Asking your child to assimilate seems like too big of an ask. It has been shown that assimilation is harmful and that acculturation leads to healthy identity development in minority children. These parents were able to healthily develop their sense of identity in their home countries, cocoon themselves in their diaspora bubble, while throwing their kids to the American wolves while whipping them as well into achievement.
Until immigrants understand that assimilation is unhealthy and they must ensure they acculturate their children, there will be a continuous stream of children who develop CPTSD due to extreme abuse. Visiting China once every couple of years is NOT ENOUGH. Teaching your kids basic Chinese is NOT ENOUGH. Not teaching them Chinese history and contextualizing it with American history and society is NOT OKAY. Forcing them to be your little trophy kid without listening to their needs or hopes while cutting them off from their home country is SICK. Being a useless bystander as your Chinese children succumb to brutal racism is pure evil.
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... keep reading on reddit ➡What would it take for such a program to produce results that the native population, the first 10 million immigrants Japan has had since prehistory, and the first generation of their Japan-born-and-raised children, were all fairly happy with?
It’s not at all hard to imagine the worst case scenario: Japan becomes a society deeply stratified by race and class, like Spain’s new world colonies, with pure-blooded natives at the top, people of mixed Japanese and foreign heritage below them, and pure-blooded non-Japanese as a permanent underclass. I picture these three tiers being entirely socially segregated, mistrustful and low-level hateful of each other, and deterministic of the kinds of work and social services available to a child from birth. If this happens, I see a lot of immigrants taking their children and moving back to their mother countries, and numbers of applicants dropping off as word gets around that they’d be dooming their progeny to second class citizenship indefinitely.
But what would the best case scenario for this look like?
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How an immigrant can learn about Australian culture to gain cultural literacy? What are some resources (courses, books, etc.) that new citizens can leverage to adapt to Australian culture, to better integrate with Australian society?
Both definitions are so similar that I cannot pinpoint the difference. Please help.
Full-text: sci-hub.se/10.1080/03670244.2019.1606805
Background
>Research shows that more acculturated Latinos have worse health outcomes compared to their less acculturated counterparts (Lin 2003; Perez-Escamilla 2011; Castellanos 2015; Yoshida et al. 2017). Dietary acculturation, the process by which immigrants adopt the eating behaviors of their host culture, is thought to explain this heterogeneity in health outcomes (Sam and Berry 2010; AbriadoLanza 2006; Himmelgreen et al. 2014; Himmelgreen et al, 2004; Perez-Escamilla 2007; Langellier et al. 2014; Bolstad and Bungum 2013). It is hypothesized that immigrants come to the United States (US) with healthy, traditional eating behaviors and adopt less healthy, “American” eating behaviors as they acculturate. This hypothesis assumes that there are two distinct food cultures and environments, however, with globalization of the food supply and the emergence of transnational culture and space, this is no longer the case [...]
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>Childhood experiences with food influence familiarity with foods, food preferences, and emotions associated with food and shape food choice trajectories (Swam et al. 2018). Using the life course perspective to study Dominicans immigrants in New York City (NYC) provides insight into what, if any, changes were made after immigration. Using Dominican in Santo Domingo (SD) women as the reference point provides insight as to whether behaviors women in NYC are representative of a global change or the immigrant experience. [...]
Methods
Sample and setting
- open-ended qualitative interviews
Results
>Twenty-nine participants, including six women in SD and 23 women in NYC, described childhood and adult experiences with food and eating that were influenced by Dominican and U.S. culture. All women in SD and 14 women in NYC spoke Spanish and 9 women in NYC were bilingual [...]
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>Women were asked to describe their experiences with food and cooking as a child in DR. Women who described traditional food choice trajectories used words such as “heavy”, “fresh” or“real food” to describe the food they ate in DR. Esmarelda, a divorced women who had li
... keep reading on reddit ➡An exploration into the prevalence of acculturation stress in international university students in the UK.
Do international students experience acculturation stress?
Are you an international student?
I would like to invite you to take part in this quick online survey. My research project is part of my master’s level dissertation looking into whether or not international university students have added stressors in comparison to national university students. I wish to explore what type of stress they experience and find common themes.
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Hello !
I recently added some names in the 00_culture.txt file BUT when I open my game, many cultures disappeared (grey zone) and when I click on a grey province I have the message "acculturated".
I need help to fix this thing, can you help me guys ?
I checked parenthesis, square brackets, etc in this file... and I did not see any errors.
Hi all. This is for my masters dissertation. All relevant consent forms and information sheets are included in the survey found here (Qualtrics link). This will only take about ten minutes of your time and will be greatly appreciated!
I was discussing this yesterday and thought it would be interesting to hear other people’s opinions. Basically, I was arguing that when it comes to pluricentric languages, it’s possible for someone to be 100% fluent, in any meaningful sense of the word (that is, in any sense that does not exclude any group of native speakers), without necessarily being privy to/able to understand all cultural references in wide usage in one or more countries where the language is spoken. In particular (and this was the critical point of the discussion), I was arguing it was true even when those references were crystalized in idiomatic expressions.
In English, for example, you have expressions such as “to hit/knock it out of the park,” which is exceedingly common in the US, but I strongly suspect there are native speakers who wouldn’t know what it means. After all, it’s closely related to sports (baseball in particular) that are not universally popular.
There’s a second group of expressions that have little or no cultural implications, but which I feel are particular to certain circles/industries, say, business or higher education. “To take a holistic approach” would be a good example here: it’s likely to be used in every English-speaking country, but only by some speakers.
Finally, there’s a third kind of idiomatic expression that I feel would be understood everywhere. “The light at the end of the tunnel” is an example of this kind: it draws its meaning from sensory experience, and traces an analogue to a situation people from different cultural backgrounds can just as easily conceive of.
Is this distinction reasonable, and has it been studied?
