I am interested in Changing Immigration Patterns in Chapter I of Intercultural Communication in Contexts by M&N. It gives me the idea of how “cultures can change over time and become more or less homogeneous.” (M&N 9) We also can understand it as cross-cultural adaptation as Tsekouras said that cross-cultural movements have become a common place of over time.(URL)
Because the motivation of adaptation which depends on the how large of new comers; as well as the permanently of the immigrants who move from their original culture to the host society. In which, it is very similarity to their relationship that involve to the environment. It will be affected by the condition of the communication between cultural patterns and individual’s identity.
So the immigrants have to learn the communication patterns of its host. It is called acculturation. Also some of communication patterns of immigrants’ original home culture have to be deleted. It is called deculturation. Therefore, culture is changing by over time and have similar culture in group or population by new comer or new environment.
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I agree that many immigrants have assimilated into their new society but I also have to add that in an era of increased technology, immigrants have a greater opportunity to retain their old culture and identity. In addition, they have the opportunity to bring some of their culture to the new country.
ReplyDeleteI should adding on the post of this link: http://www.aegean.gr/culturaltec/tsekouras/Papers/IEEE%20Conf%20Comput%20Intell.pdf
ReplyDeleteSo that can explaining more about how technology influences to immigrants environment.