Cultural Diversity in Unequal Societies Sustained through Cross-Cultural Competence and Identity Valuation
| dc.bibliographicCitation.article | 238 | |
| dc.bibliographicCitation.issue | 1 | |
| dc.bibliographicCitation.volume | 8 | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bunce, John A. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-28T13:45:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-03-28T13:45:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2023-03-28T09:52:26Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | In much contemporary political discourse, valued cultural characteristics are threatened by interaction with culturally distinct others, such as immigrants or a hegemonic majority. Such interaction often fosters cross-cultural competence (CCC), the ability to interact successfully across cultural boundaries. However, most theories of cultural dynamics ignore CCC, making cultural diversity incompatible with mutually beneficial inter-group interaction, and contributing to fears of cultural loss. Here, interview-based field methods at an Amazonian ethnic boundary demonstrate the prevalence of CCC. These data motivate a new theoretical mathematical model, incorporating competing developmental paths to CCC and group identity valuation, that illuminates how a common strategy of disempowered minorities can counter-intuitively sustain cultural diversity within a single generation: Given strong group identity, minorities in a structurally unequal, integrative society can maintain their distinctive cultural norms by learning those of the majority. Furthermore, rather than a rejection of, or threat to, majority culture, the valuation of a distinctive minority identity can characterize CCC individuals committed to extensive, mutually beneficial engagement with the majority as members of an integrative, multi-cultural society. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1057/s41599-021-00916-5 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2937 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.relation.issn | 26629992 | |
| dc.relation.journal | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications | |
| dc.rights | L::CC BY 4.0 | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject.ddc | ddc:300 | |
| dc.subject.field | socialscience | |
| dc.title | Cultural Diversity in Unequal Societies Sustained through Cross-Cultural Competence and Identity Valuation | |
| dc.type | article | |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication |