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HOW DO WE ADAPT?

America, the Prosperous Land of Opportunity

ADAPTATION

STRESS

-The reaction and solution to stress

-Most of the time, involuntary

EX: Even though you stress about the presentation, you adapt to the situation and resolve by practicing!

It's in our nature to "fit in"

-Occurs when placed in

unknown environment

-Builds up as tension

EX: Being nervous about a

presentation builds tension,

you then become stressed about

the presentation.

The Theory and the Theorist

"Individuals are open systems that must adapt to larger environments, and they do so by a cybernetic process in which inputs from the larger system are transformed into actions that lead to change"

Young Yun Kim

Situational Factor: Some struggles are less severe than others

The Numbers

The Ending Products:

  • 1 in 4 Californians is an immigrant
  • 48.6% (4.8 million) immigrants have gone through the naturalization process and have become American citizens
  • “Immigrants in California pay roughly $30 billion in federal taxes, $5.2 billion in state income taxes, and $4.6 billion in sales taxes each year
  • In California, “the average immigrant-headed household contributes a net $2,679 annually to Social Security, which is $539 more than the average US-born household

-American Immigration Council (2013)

Alberto Gonzalez

Mel Martinez

Conclusion

EQUALITY

Lionel Sosa

Antonio Gonzalez

Christina Saralegui

The Effects

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Foreigner: a person not

belonging to a particular

place or group; a

stranger or outsider

There is no such thing as homo Americanus. There is no single culture here. We do not, in fact, have a culture at all — at least, not a highly developed one, whose symbols, images, and ideas all of us work out of and constantly mine afresh; such "common culture" as even intellectuals have is more an ideal aspired to than a task accomplished.”‎ (Kim p. 24)

OVERVIEW:

1. What is the Cross-Cultural Adaptation Theory?

2. How do people adapt?

3. What are the effects?

References

Definition of foreigner in English:. (n.d.). foreigner: definition of foreigner in Oxford dictionary

(American English) (US). Retrieved February 6, 2014, from http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/foreigner

Kim, Y. Y. (2001). Becoming intercultural: an integrative theory of communication and cross-cultural

adaptation. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications.

New Americans in California. (2013, January 11). Immigration Policy Center. Retrieved February 5,

2014, from http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-facts/new-americans-california

25 Most Influential Hispanics in America. (2005, August 22). Time. Retrieved February 18,

2014,fromhttp://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2008201,00.html

Cross-Cultural Adaptation Theory

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