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37. INTEGRATION, ASSIMILATION, ACCULTURATION AND TRANSCULTURATION
Integration, assimilation, acculturation
form a semantic field that encompasses a wide range of diverse phenomena that arise during the interaction of both individuals and entire social groups with a foreign cultural environment.
Integration denotes the state of the internal integrity of a particular cultural entity, as well as the consistency between its various elements.
Integration is often understood as such processes, the result of which should be such mutual coordination of various subjects of culture.
Integration is not always painless; it can be difficult to ensure the interaction of representatives of different cultures.
Nowadays, various forms of integration are distinguished (integration around any religious, political, scientific idea, historical tradition, etc.).
When considering various options for intercultural interaction, the term is also used "assimilation".
It is understood as a process as a result of which members of one ethnocultural entity lose their originally existing culture and adopt the culture of another entity with which they are in direct contact. The term “assimilation” is often used to refer to the special policy of a dominant ethnocultural group towards ethnic and cultural minorities, aimed at the systematic suppression of their culture.
Assimilation is often associated with violent and discriminatory measures against minorities. This causes negative political associations.
Under the term "acculturation" is understood as a set of phenomena arising from the fact that groups of individuals with different cultures come into contact in which changes occur in the culture of one of the groups or both. Voluntary borrowing of cultures, their flow from one to another creates an opportunity for establishing stable intercultural communication relations. Forcibly planting a dominant culture in a foreign cultural environment may, in a different situation, lead to the rejection of imposed values.
Since the second half of the XX century. the term "acculturation" began to be widely used in studies on the interaction and mutual influence of non-Western cultures (Spanishization, Sinicization, etc.).
Less developed but widely used is the concept transculturation. The essence of this process is that a certain ethnocultural community moves to another habitat where there is no foreign cultural environment (the original culture of the USA and Canada can be considered the result of the transculturation process).
Author: Barysheva A.D.
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