The Missing Side of Acculturation: How Majority-Group Members Relate to Immigrant and Minority-Group Cultures

In many countries, individuals who have represented the majority group historically are decreasing in relative size and/or perceiving that they diminished status and power compared with those self-identifying as immigrants or members of ethnic minority groups. These developments raise several salient timely issues, including (a) how majority-group members’ cultural orientations change a consequence increasing intercultural contact due to shifting demographics; (b) what individual, group, cultural, socio-structural processes shape these changes; (c) implications acculturation are. Although research across decades has examined minority-group members, much less is known about acculturate increasingly diverse societies. We present an overview state art emerging field acculturation, identify needs be known, introduce conceptual model guide future research.