ACCULTURATION

Acculturation and Latino health in the United States



Do you agree or disagree with the author's posture on "Acculturation"?

The article presents two dimensions of Acculturation have been discussed. Firstly there is uni-dimensional acculturation which says that acculturation is a continuum process which deals within two extremes that is from “not acculturate” to “completely acculturate”. This view is based on the assumption that a person continuously adapt to the host culture and at the same time continuously detach it's self from the home culture. So in this way there will be a time where a person would be completely acculturate with ...