Microaggressions are speech or actions constituting indirect, subtle, unintentional acts of discrimination, and awareness their harmful effects has grown in recent years. Increased could improve inter-group interactions, but also poses challenges. Fear misspeaking, fear being subject to microaggressions can stifle interactions. We investigated how people from different racial ethnic groups poli...

This paper uses lived experiences to critically examine the orientation of international graduate students at research-intensive Canadian universities. We, five co-authors, embody diverse ethnic, racial, sexual, religious, national, and gender identities, yet are all (or have been) in Canada. Through collaborative autoethnography, we destabilize notion “orientation.” We argue that student shoul...

OBJECTIVES Cultural variability (CV) is introduced as an overlooked dimension of cultural identity development pertaining to emphasizing and de-emphasizing the influence of a single cultural identity (i.e., cultural influence [CI]) on daily interactions and behaviors. The Cultural IDentity Influence Measure (CIDIM) is introduced as a novel measure of CI and CV, and hypothesis-driven validation ...

Settlement geography and cultural landscapes, two well-established themes of human geography, have taken on renewed importance in the study of the United States. The examination of regional cultural patterns, such as the distribution of Hispanics in the American Southwest, Germans in Texas, and Mormons in the Salt Lake Region are a few examples of the geographic research tradition. More recentl...

The United States is so obviously an immigrant nation that this fact assumed to be significant for the contuct of its foreign policy. This article examines assumption and whether recent change in immigration patterns away from Europe towards Asia as point origin may portend a shift orientation U. S. also describes effect groups ethnic lobbies have had on U.S. policy past, extrapolating generali...

BACKGROUND The epidemiological investigation of acculturation has often been hampered by inconsistent definitions and measurement, and methodological short-comings. Adopting a bi-directional model, with good theoretical and psychometric properties, this study aimed to describe the temporal, ethnic and socio-demographic influences of acculturation for a group of Pacific mothers residing in New Z...

aim: considering the fundamental role of parents' function and family dynamics including the importance role of family communication pattern on preventing early-onset substance use in children, the present study aimed to determine the correlation between family communication pattern and mothers' preventive behavioral intention regarding preventing early-onset substance use in children...