Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Acculturation orientations affect the evolution of a multicultural society

  • E. Yagmur Erten,
  • Pieter van den Berg,
  • Franz J. Weissing

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02513-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Cross-cultural interactions can cause cultural change, a process known as acculturation. Here, Erten et al. develop a model of cultural change under immigration, considering individuals’ orientations towards acculturation, and find that willingness to interact cross-culturally and resident cultural conservatism favour cultural coexistence.