Acculturation Process of the Immigrant Turks Living in Deventer, The Netherlands

Approximate populations of non-European origin in Europe are 3 - 4% of the total population. That is, people of many cultural backgrounds come to live together in a diverse society forming cultural groups that are not equal in power (numerical, economic, or political). Thus in both popular and academic circles, anthropologically-inspired notions of cultural difference have been widely debated (Soriano, et al., 2004) with popular and social science terms such as "mainstream", "minority", "ethnic group", etc. (Berry, 1997) stressing on the fact that xenophobic fears of the ?other' must be overco... Mehr ...