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Cultural Heritage and History ■ 33 Table 2–3 Selected Seminal Sociocultural Events of the Past 75 Years, Workplace Ethos, Lifestyle, and Social Values Generation Seminal Events Workplace Ethos Lifestyle Social Values The Silent Generation The Great Depression Traditional work ethic Work first Community service WWII Employer loyalty Conformist Vote b. 1928–1945 Hiroshima Born to lead […]

Assimilation Acculturation also may be referred to as assimilation, the process by which an individual develops a new cultural identity. Assimilation means becoming in all ways like the members of the dominant culture. The process of assimilation encompasses various aspects, such as cultural or behavioral, marital, identifica- tion, and civic. The underlying assumption is that

Acculturation While becoming a competent participant in the dominant culture, a member of the nondominant culture is always identified as a member of the original culture. The process of acculturation is involuntary, and a member of the non- dominant cultural group is forced to learn the new culture to survive. Indi- viduals experience second-culture acquisition

Matrix of heritage consistency, continued. Cultural Heritage and History ■ 31 socialization. For many people who have been socialized within the bound- aries of a “traditional culture” or a non-Western culture, modern American culture becomes a second cultural identity. Those who immigrate here, legally or illegally, from non-Western or non-modern countries may find socializa- tion

Matrix of heritage consistency. 30 ■ Chapter 2 are unable to communicate, do not know your way around, and do not know know the “rules.” The three facets to the process of overall acculturation are socialization, acculturation, and assimilation. Socialization Socialization is the process of being raised within a culture and acquiring the characteristics of

Examples of Heritage Consistency The factors that constitute heritage consistency are listed in Table 2–2. The fol- lowing are examples of each factor: 1. The person’s childhood development occurred in the person’s coun- try of origin or in an immigrant neighborhood in the United States of like ethnic group. The person was raised in a

Specific examples of a religious tradition and its influence on health include: 1. Judaism is rich in health-related proscriptions—from diet to activity to human relations and so forth. 2. The Catholic religion forbids abortion. 3. The Jehovah’s Witnesses forbid blood transfusions. 4. The Mormons and Seventh Day Adventists prohibit the use of caf- feine and

Religion The third major component of heritage consistency is religion. The word religion showed 170,000,000 results on February 23, 2012, on the Internet. Again, a random review of the material yielded information that was similar to existing data. One way to understand religion is that it is “the belief in a divine or superhuman power

24 ■ Chapter 2 Indeed, the phenomenon of ethnicity is “complex, ambivalent, paradoxi- cal, and elusive” (Senior, 1965, p. 21). Ethnicity is indicative of the following characteristics a group may share in some combination: 1. Geographic origin 2. Migratory status 3. Race 4. Language and dialect 5. Religious faith or faiths 6. Ties that transcend

Ethnicity The word ethnicity showed 23,600,000 results on February 23, 2012, on the Internet. A random exploration of selected sites did not provide information different from the classical information in the following discussion. Cultural background is a fundamental component of one’s ethnic back- ground. Before we proceed with this discussion, though, we need to define