Perceived Acceptability of Acculturative Behaviors by Hispanic and Mainstream Navy Recruits.

Abstract

A group of 75 Hispanic and 83 Mainstream Navy recruits was asked to rate their perceived acceptability of immigrants keeping or loosing their native culture-specific behaviors (native language, dress codes, food preferences, music, literature, etc.) or becoming bicultural. Overall, both groups showed a marked preference for biculturalism on the part of immigrants, these results being independent of the respondent's actual level of acculturation or biculturalism. The two groups only differed on the Anglo's rejection of immigrants using only their native language while Hispanics were somewhat more accepting of this behavior. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA118957

Entities

People

  • Gerardo Marin
  • Harry C. Triandis
  • Hector Betancourt

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acceptability
  • Acquisition
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Hispanics
  • Illinois
  • Immigrants
  • Language
  • Literature
  • Military Research
  • Minority Groups
  • New Jersey
  • New York
  • Perception
  • Psychology
  • Rejection
  • United States
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Gender and Food Studies
  • Marine Ecological Systems Migration
  • Organizational Psychology.