Procesy asymilacji, transkulturacji i uniwersalizacji kulturowej: przegląd problematyki
Assimilation, Transculturation and Cultural Universalization: Overview of Issues

Summary/Abstract: The text discusses the consequences of cultural encounter. The clash between groups of diff erent cultures in the result of migration provoke a phenomenon of reciprocal interactions and social and cultural changes of a great complexity. The nature of these changes is mutual adaptation and integration of newcomers with the hosting society. This process takes sometimes several generations and not always means the complete assimilation. The adaptation has various stages and forms, but the adaptation and accommodation stimulates cultural universalization and transculturation. The move from native culture into the more universal culture of the country of the settlement proves to be more complex than structural adaptation. It requires changes in the identity of people exposed to the process of assimilation and changes of the structure of the group. The article refers to main theories and concepts of assimilation which are confronted with the current phenomenon in the world.

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