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Cultural or ethnic membership, gender identity, sexual orientation identity, social class identity, age identity, disability identity or professional identity. |
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Includes any unique attributes that we associate with our individuated self in comparison with those of others. Learned traits. |
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Characteristics include: the emphasis on personal individualized meanings, negotiable roles between parent and child and the emphasis on interactive discussions within the family. |
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Emphasizes communal meanings, ascribed roles and statuses between parent and child and family rule conformity. |
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Defined as the emotional significance that we attach to our sense of belonging of affiliation with the larger culture. |
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is "inherently a matter of ancestry, of beliefs about the origins of one's forebears". Can be based on national origin, race, religion or language. |
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In context to cultural identity, valued content refers to the standards for expectations that people hold in their mindset in making evaluations. |
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Refers to the strength of affiliation that we have with our larger culture. (Basically the degree of strength or weakness in one's cultural identity) |
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The process is defined as the degree of identity change that occurs when individuals move from one familiar environment to an unfamiliar one. |
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Refers to primary socialization process of strangers in their original home culture, where in they have internalized their primary cultural values. |
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Factors that are elements in the host environment that influence newcomers adaptation to the new culture. |
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Is an example of acculturation. Immigrants basically associating with identity dislocation problems. |
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Interpersonal/Ethnic Media-Level Factors |
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Face to face social networking factors where ethnic groups form a community in an unfamiliar environment. |
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