Article: The acculturation of Canadian immigrants: determinants of ethnic identification with the host society *.

IN THE EARLY PART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, social researchers focussing on immigrant acculturation generally presumed that assimilation was an unavoidable consequence of continuous interaction with the dominant cultural group. Robert Park's (1950) race relations cycle, for instance, posits that when two or more ethnic groups share a common geographical location, their interactions and relationships pass through a series of stages that ultimately end in assimilation. According to Park, interactions between ethnic groups sharing a common geopolitical boundary become increasingly frequent, such that distinct ethnicities disappear and the groups become culturally ...

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