On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Nancie Im wrote:
> > Country and culture please. Canada?
> > And degree of your personal acculturation: integrating,assimilating,
> > marginal,separating.
>
> What does this have to do with not lumping all the non-Eurocentric
> cultures together?? I'm Asian (Korean, more specifically, and yes that is
> different from being Chinese or Japanese).
> And please don't bring acculturation into this, you're talking to someone
> who does research in this area.
> Nancie
I also have read extensively and I focus presently on Cross-cultural
Psychology.In fact I taught Cross-cultural Psychology for a number of
years
at Rollins College in Winter Park,Florida.
(Paul Smith -Chief Investigatng Officer for TIPS may want to verify this).
It appears that Koreans,Vietnamese,Cubans have less difficulies in
adapting to Western Society than say Puerto Ricans and Cambodians.
The former societies have had maximum exposure to Western
political,economic,and religious ideologies and similarities
between Cofucianism ans Capitalism exists.The latter mentioned
societies have become less integrated with the other philosophies.
Hence patterns of certain practices may be more accepted
in some societies than others.But again the acculturating
modes of assimilation,integration,marginalization and separation
are important to understand the big picture.
I also think that well-to-do ,educated
international students and others in the West are not representative
of the population back home.
While on this subject,and you being from Korea, I read somewhere that
Korean husbands are expected to beat their wives occasionally?
Is this info correct?
Michael Sylvester
Daytona Beach,Florida
