A new route towards more harmonious intergroup relationships in England? Majority members’ proximal-acculturation |
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| Institution: | 1. S1.74 Social Sciences Building, Warwick Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK;2. Gaskell 218, Psychology, Department of Life Sciences, College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, UK;3. Social Psychology Program, Department of Health, Aging, and Society, McMaster University, Kenneth Taylor Hall Rm. 129, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4M4, Canada;4. Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Forskningsveien 3A, 0373, Oslo, Norway;1. Department of Sociology, Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change (CRESC), University of Antwerp, Sint-Jacobsstraat 2-4, 2000, Antwerp, Belgium;2. Department of Sociology, University of Antwerp, Sint-Jacobstraat 2B, 2000, Antwerp, Belgium;3. Department of Training and Education Sciences, University of Antwerp, Prinsstraat 13, 2000, Antwerp, Belgium;1. University of Sussex, Sussex, UK;2. University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;3. University of Florence, Florence, Italy;1. Aarhus University, Denmark;2. University of Miami, USA;1. University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences, P.O. Box 54 (Unioninkatu 37), 00014, Finland;2. University of Helsinki, Faculty of Theology, P.O. Box 4 (Vuorikatu 3), 00014, Finland;3. University of Oslo, Department of Psychology, P. O. Box 1094 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway;1. Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway;2. Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal;3. Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore, Singapore;1. Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan;2. The School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China |
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| Abstract: | Although the ways that immigrants relate to UK culture has been a hot topic since the EU-referendum, little attention has been given to how majority group members such as Host Country Nationals (HCNs) relate to immigrants’ culture. Thus, we explored English HCNs’ globalisation-based proximal-acculturation – the extent to which they prefer to adopt aspects of immigrants’ cultures and/or maintain their national culture. Using two-step cluster analysis, a pilot study (N = 63) revealed a separated, integrated, and undifferentiated cluster, with separated HCNs perceiving cultural diversity more as a threat and less as an enrichment. Using latent profile analysis in a second study (N = 220) also revealed a three strategy-solution, identifying assimilated, integrated and separated profiles. Again we examined how these strategies differed across perceptions of cultural threat and enrichment as well as other psychosocial characteristics: identifying with fellow English citizens, recognizing cultural differences whilst not being culturally embedded (constructive marginalization), and various forms of intergroup contact. Separated HCNs identified more with fellow English citizens, endorsed less constructive marginalization, perceived less cultural enrichment yet more cultural threat than HCNs following some of the other strategies. These results stress that the onus of cultural adoption lies with both groups – minorities and majority members – with English HCNs showing distinct proximal-acculturation strategies. Lastly, when exploring a variable-centred approach, proximal-acculturation orientations (cultural maintenance/adoption) mediated the relationship between cultural threat, cultural enrichment, and intergroup contact on positive feelings towards immigrants. Thus, the ways that HCNs acculturate may provide a new route towards harmonious intergroup relations. |
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| Keywords: | Latent profile analysis Acculturation Globalisation Majority group members Intergroup relations Multiculturalism |
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