Acculturation orientations affect the evolution of a multicultural society.

ABSTRACT: The migration of people between different cultures has affected cultural change throughout history. To understand this process, cross-cultural psychologists have used the 'acculturation' framework, classifying 'acculturation orientations' along two dimensions: the willingness to interact with culturally different individuals, and the inclination to retain the own cultural identity ('cultural conservatism'). Here, using a cultural evolution approach, we construct a dynamically explicit model of acculturation. We show that the evolution of a multicultural society, where immigrant and resident culture stably coexist, is more likely if individuals readily engage in cross-cultural interactions, and if resident individuals are more culturally conservative than immigrants. This result holds if so

SUBMITTER: Erten EY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5754364 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature