Notes on
Berry, J.W. (1989). The acculturalization process and refugee behavior. Context: Southeast Asians in California, 10 (75), 1-4.
Acculturalization- is when 2 autonomous cultures meet and one becomes the dominant while the other either assimilates to the new culture, integrates into the new culture while maintaining their identity, rejects the new culture, or deculturalizes all together ( removes from both cultures).
*Good point-groups who were minorities in their homeland have different acculturalization experience than groups who were the dominant cultures in their societies.
Multiculturalism- is not just having many cultural groups- * it also needs to have a society that pursues multi-cultualism- like signs in Canada being multilingual
This article brings to mind the acculturation of the Aztec indians by the Spanish conquistadors. Many died and lost their language of Nauhtl, but the religious ideologies remained. They saw many similarities in Catholicism. Catholics had many saints and the Aztecs has many Gods that they worshipped. When the Aztecs were forced to go and pray at church they hid their statues of their deities inside the saint statues. It is similar with their infrastructure. Many of the pyramids still existed and were hidden under the churches and buildings that the Spanish built. Therefore I would say despite Spanish best efforts to force assimilation upon the Aztecs, the Aztecs managed to integrate into the European culture.
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