Ethnic diversity is increasing in most advanced countries, driven mostly by sharp increases in immigration. In the long run immigration and diversity are likely to have important cultural, economic, fiscal, and developmental benefits. In the short run, however, immigration and ethnic diversity tend to reduce social solidarity and social capital. New evidence from the US suggests that in ethnica...

This study examines how the valence of cultural cues in the environment moderates the way biculturals shift between multiple cultural identities. The authors found that when exposed to positive cultural cues, biculturals who perceive their cultural identities as compatible (high bicultural identity integration, or high BII) respond in culturally congruent ways, whereas biculturals who perceive ...

Virtual environments and the Internet provide an important medium for interactive collaborative learning. Immersive Virtual Environments appear able to support intuitive interaction techniques and metaphors. Our Identity Authoring Approach is aimed at our multicultural global society, and allows for multiple identities / persona to be created and used as interaction metaphors by users. The appr...

In order to explore how ethnic minorities in China reshape their perception of themselves today, I conducted field research K Village southwest China. this anthropological about village which has a majority Yi minorities, did in-depth interviews, discourse analysis, and participatory observance examine the conflicts between three different identities, tensions behind contemporary society, histo...

Objective: Depression and Anxiety literature in Iran is short of cultural/indigenous studies, especially with regard to Azeri ethnic group. This study was carried out in order to identify depression and anxiety aspects in Azeri ethnic group. Methods: In a cross sectional qualitative design, 32 Azeri informants (14 patients, 13 lay people, and 5 professionals) recruited in the study using pur...

The present study focuses on the negotiation of identities Kwee Thiam Tjing, author Indonesia dalem Api dan Bara ‘Indonesia Fire and Charcoals’. Our aims to investigate ways in which he responds others’ positioning repositions himself fit a particular circumstance under certain dominant power. results show five domains that may be subject negotiation: linguistic, ethnic, cultural, role, social ...

Contrary to research that suggests Blacks can only be reached effectively with Black-oriented media, this research demonstrates that there appears to be a subset of the Black population that can be reached equally well with Whitetargeted media as they can with Black-targeted media. The study findings confirm expectations that Blacks’ differential responses to race-targeted Web sites are mediate...

Understanding how ethnic identities develop in adolescence is currently limited by a reliance on self-report paper-and-pencil measures. This mixed-methods study presents a novel response time measure, the Multiethnic Identities Processing Task (MIPT), to quantify bicultural adolescents' implicit identifications with ethnic and racial identity labels. Eighty-four adolescents (age 14-21 years) of...