Types of Interactions How do different cultural groups

Types of Interactions

§ How do different cultural groups interact? § When different groups meet, three main Types of Intercultural Relationships types of relationships may develop: assimilation, segregation or integration Majority Group Minority Groups

§ Assimilation is one group adopts the language, values, attitudes and traditions of the majority group, losing their own cultural identity in the process Assimilation The minority group is absorbed or engulfed by the majority group and they lose their cultural identity.

§ Segregation is when one cultural group is kept separate from another Segregation The minority group is kept separate from the majority.

§ Integration is when one cultural group keeps aspects of their own distinct culture, while at the same time adopting elements, values, attitudes and traditions from another culture. Integration The minority group participates fully in society, but continue to retain their own cultural identity.

Which interaction is this? § A new girl arrives at school. She offers to teach her new classmates how to curl. The class agrees, and offers to teach her how to play basketball.

§ A boy arrives at school He offers to teach Which interaction is this? his new classmates how to curl. The classmates refuse to learn because they’re too busy playing basketball. The new boy learns how to play basketball, but never curls again.

§ A girl arrives at school. She offers to teach Which interaction is this? her new classmates how to curl. The classmates refuse to learn because they’re too busy playing basketball. The don’t let the new girl play with them, so she continues to curl with her brother.

§ Canada prides itself at home and abroad as a country made up of a cultural mosaic rather than a cultural melting pot. Cultural Mosaic vs Melting Pot § The mosaic is based on our belief that Canada as a whole becomes stronger by having immigrants bring with them their cultural diversity for all Canadians to learn from. § The cultural melting pot, as adopted in the United States, tells immigrants that no matter who they have been in the past, upon landing on American shores, they are Americans and are expected to adopt and follow the American way.