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한국인의 적응 능력
바람직하다
영어 이야기 1958
acculturate
[ əˈkʌltʃəreit ]
(문화에) 적응시키다
"저녁 안 먹었니?" 라고 물을 때, "네,"라고 답하면
저녁을 먹지 않았다는 대답이다
영어는 한국식 표현과 반대다
"Didn't you eat dinner?" 라고 물었을 때 'Yes,'라고 하면
저녁을 먹었다는 말이다.
영어는 묻는 사람이 긍정으로 묻든 부정으로 묻든
그가 하지 않았으면 'No' 이고 했으면 'Yes' 이다
물론 그 외에도 언어의 표현 차이가 많지만
한국인들이 미국을 비롯한 영어권 나라에 적응을 잘하려면
언어 표현이 정확해야 한다
When Koreans would like to ACCULTURATE to American life,
the first thing they have to do is to speak English in their ways.
한국인들이 미국 생활에 적응하고 싶을 때
그들이 해야할 첫번 째 일은 그들 식으로 영어를 하는 것이다.
그런 의미에서 어린이들은 어른들에 비해
미국 생활에 빨리 그리고 잘 적응한다
Children can ACCULTURATE foreigh life pretty easilier than their parents.
어린이들은 그들의 부모들에 비해 외국 생활에 훨씬 쉽게 적응할 수 있다
(여기서 pretty 는 비교급을 꾸미는 '더욱'이라는 뜻임)
그러다 보니 미국의 이세들은 너무 미국화 되어있는데
그들은 부모 세대는 한국식으로 미국생활을 하려고 해서
마찰이 생길 때가 있다
Korean parents want their kids to keep Korean life style
while the kids would like their parent to ACCULTURATE to Amercan one.
한국의 부모들은 그들의 아이들이 한국식 삶을 유지하고 싶어하는데
어린이들은 그들의 부모들이 미국 생활에 적응하기를 바란다.
인간을 비롯한 모든 생물들은
자손 번성을 본능적으로 원한다
According to the sociocultural view, people especially women are ACCULTURATED to crave babies.
사회문환적 관점에서 사람들 특히 여성들은
아기를 간절히 갖고 싶은 일에 적응되어져 있다
한국의 어려운 여건에서 그런 본능을
포기하는 젊은 부부의 마음을 생각한다
대한민국의 젊은이들은 '부모이기를 포기한' 삶을 살고 있다
이세를 낳는 것이 본능 가운데 하나인데 말이다
Schools help to acculturate the second generation of immigrants.
How did Hispanics acculturate to life in America?
. I can acculturate well and working under press.
people who have acculturated to the United States
Despite his first-class American higher education, Volpi is not fully acculturated.
According to the sociocultural view, people -- especially women -- are acculturated to crave babies.
The school struggled to acculturate the immigrant students to the American school system
They're being acculturated to accept prison conditions
We need to acculturate the second-generation Muslim communities to our way of life
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Social support reduced the impact of acculturative stress.
The main results indicated that acculturative and psychosocial variables were significant predictors of academic-related outcomes.
예측
Foreign Workers' Acculturative Stress in Korea Society
The ways by which the acculturative transitions on the local context happen are analyzed.
Eunice Yuen M.D., Ph.D.
The Basics of Children's Mental Health
EDUCATION
Calibrating Family
Acculturation: Healing Across Generations
A Personal Perspective: Learning culture lessons from a trip home.
Posted February 23, 2023
Reviewed by Michelle Quirk
KEY POINT
For new immigrants,
acculturative stress can lead to identity formation struggles, family conflicts, and mental and physical health problems.
Intergenerational narratives help children build resilience through a sense of self, families, and generations.
Gratitude builds stronger social relationships and positive emotions.
The California Lunar New Year mass shooting shook Asian communities around the world. It was unthinkable that the culprits were elderly Asian men targeting victims with similar ethnic backgrounds on a culturally symbolic holiday. Many discussions after gun violence circled around mental illness, which contributes only to 4 percent of the violence according to studies.
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acculturate (v.)
"adopt and assimilate an alien culture," 1925 (implied in acculturated), a back-formation돠
from acculturation (q.v.). Acculturize was used from 1895. Related: Acculturating.
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동화하다
"the adoption and assimilation of an alien culture" [OED], 1880, from assimilated form of ad- "to" + culture (n.) + noun ending -ation.
As an adult and child psychiatrist specializing in minority mental health, I believe we should focus on the mental health of the survivors. For new immigrant families, acculturative stress from adapting to a new culture can lead to struggles with identity formation, family conflicts, and increased mental health and physical health problems. For Asian descents, the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes since the COVID-19 pandemic can link to mood disorders, substance use, self-inflicting injury, and suicide. It has been a vulnerable time for many Asians and Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPI).
When the shockwave of the sad news reached me, I was on the opposite side of the globe, visiting my octogenarian parents who survived the wrath of COVID-19 in Hong Kong. It was supposedly the joyous time of the Lunar New Year for them and my two young Asian American boys who have not explored worlds outside of North America. It was hard to fully enjoy the festivity when chaos and tragedies hung in the air.
I have seen the mirror image of the struggles of Asian Americans in my family and friends in Hong Kong. They lived with acculturative stress in silence while embracing China’s vague security laws. When choosing a future for their family, they can stay to help Hong Kong’s post-pandemic recovery, knowing that their opinions are restricted to a piece of white paper in protest. The alternative would be immigrating to a foreign land, suffering different acculturative stress in silence with little mental health resources, and fearing potential hate crimes on the horizon.
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Whether it is in the United States or Hong Kong, it is essential to move forward from the wake of the tragedies by calibrating our acculturation, preserving Asian virtues, and fostering collective pride. For me, this trip is full of life lessons to calibrate our family acculturation, granting the “permission to come home” from facing acculturative crisis. This is what we can do for our children and elders:
Respect and care for the elders, starting in childhood. Filial piety is the Confucian concept embraced in many East Asian families. Besides an obligated respect and honor toward one's ancestors, it is essential to reciprocate care to one's parents have once given. This can reduce isolation, despair, and even depression in the elderly. Although it may be beyond expectations for young children to practice filial piety, a modified learning of respect and empathy for the parents and elders is still feasible. I noticed my children did not hesitate to share their seats with the elderly in the subway or to hold the hand of their grandmother to comfort her arthritic pain while walking.
Introduce history and family stories. Intergenerational narratives help children understand the concept of “Who are you from?” This builds resilience through a sense of self, families, and generations. I shared with them about how our ancestors struggled with poverty and illiteracy as refugees. Some were victims of the “Coolies trade” and China’s Cultural Revolution. At the temple housing the ancestors’ cremations, children learned to “pay respect” to their ancestors and understood the reasoning of how their ancestors passed down kindness, love, and traditions from the past generations to the next.
Teach gratitude by living the cultural shock. As children develop a theory of mind, they can take others’ perspectives, feel, and express the emotions of gratitude. Gratitude builds stronger social relationships and positive emotions. Hong Kongers’ homes are on average 480 square feet. With restricted spaces, they were surprised and began to appreciate the abundance of resources they possess. At the dinner table, my children finish their entire plate by “respecting the food” as my father always preached.
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Before leaving Hong Kong, we reviewed the family picture album that my father kept for years. Our laughter and tears came all at once. We left Hong Kong packed with a cultural sense of self, love, and pride across generations. Through my work with many AAPI families at Yale Compassionate Home, Action Together (CHATogether), healing can take place from the post-pandemic acculturative crises.