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Article: Acculturation of Vietnamese Students Living in or Away From Vietnamese Communities.(Statistical Data Included)
- Article from:
- Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development
- Article date:
- October 1, 2000
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A t-test comparison of the acculturation levels of Vietnamese students (members of Vietnamese student associations) living in or away from Vietnamese communities found higher overall acculturation for the former than for the latter group and no difference in the Value dimension of acculturation. Age and length of residency in the United States predicted acculturation.
Vietnamese Americans have been a strong growing ethnic group in the United States as the result of the influx of refugees from Vietnam during the 1970s and 1980s after the fall of South Vietnam. Many of these refugees, who were forced to leave their homeland and enter a new country when they were ...