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Under a Creative Commons license Open access Highlights• Little is still known about how majority-group members acculturate. •We investigated whether personality may explain variation in their acculturation. •Openness predicted more adoption of the cultural of minority groups. •Conscientiousness predicted less adoption of the culture of minority groups. Integrated, separated, marginalized and a diffuse acculturation strategies emerged. AbstractAcculturation is commonly conceptualized as a two-way process in which all groups involved in intercultural contact change. Yet, very little is known about the acculturation orientations of majority-group members and the factors that differentiate those who adopt aspects of minority groups’ culture from those who reject them. In the present research, we for the first time aimed to answer this question from a personality perspective. A total of 301 White majority-group members living in the U.S. first completed a personality assessment and then indicated the extent to which they maintained their own culture and adopted the culture of ethnic minority groups. Our analytic approach combined top-down variable-centered and bottom-up person-centered analyses. In terms of variable-centered analyses, participants who adopted the culture of minority groups scored lower on conscientiousness and higher on openness. Moreover, adoption of minority-group cultures was positively associated with the personality facets sociability and inquisitiveness, and negatively with modesty and prudence. In terms of person-centered analyses, four acculturation clusters emerged, resembling strategies commonly observed among minority groups: marginalization, separation, integration and a diffuse strategy in which participants scored around the midpoint on own culture maintenance as well as minority culture adoption. Interestingly, especially this diffuse cluster differed from the other clusters on personality traits and facets, with participants tending to be more open than integrated and separated individuals, and less conscientious than separated individuals. The present report suggests that personality traits may help explain how majority-group members acculturate and highlights avenues for future research. KeywordsAcculturation Immigration Intercultural contact Majority-group Personality Cited by (0)© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.
What is pluralism assimilation and amalgamation?In pluralism, groups retain their own identity. In assimilation, groups conform to the identity of the dominant group. In amalgamation, groups combine to form a new group identity.
What is minority and majority group?The majority is the social group considered to have the most power in a particular place (and sometimes the most members). On the other hand, a minority is any category of people distinguished by either physical or cultural difference that a society has subordinated.
What's the difference between assimilation and amalgamation?While assimilation means a social and cultural merging, amalgamation refers to the biological merging of an ethnic or a racial group with the native population.
What is it called when a minority group is absorbed into a dominant group?assimilation, in anthropology and sociology, the process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society.
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What is the process by which a minority group and majority group combine to form a new group?
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