2012/06/01 by Elyakim Kislev · 7 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Cultural Differences and Values #Racial and Ethnic Identity Research #International Student and Expatriate Challenges #Acculturation #Identity (music) #Intercultural relations #Intercultural competence #Ambivalence #Sociology #Perspective (graphical) #Social psychology #Psychology #Cultural identity #Intercultural communication #Epistemology #Pedagogy #Aesthetics #Computer science #Feeling #Ethnic group #Anthropology
paper · doi:10.1080/14675986.2012.699373
published in Intercultural Education 23(3), 221-235 (Taylor & Francis)
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This research focuses on a group of religious students who integrated into a nonreligious school in order to understand the characteristics of their intercultural identity. I suggest a new perspective in which intercultural identity is analyzed by itself rather than analyzing acculturation strategies taken by the individual. Using an in-depth analysis of the presented case study, I argue that intercultural identity is characterized by three types of components: core, reinterpreted, and transient. Thus, while the existing bidimensional model defines integration as the simultaneous acceptance of different cultures as they are, the present study stresses the importance of reinterpreting components from both cultures as a basis for integration. Accordingly, this paper suggests that an effective integration policy encourages in the individual the ability to develop the reinterpreted components. This type of approach might promote a positive correlation, defined by prior research as ambivalent, between integration and the individual’s emotional well-being and educational achievements.