No More Monoliths

Navigating Similarity and Alterity in Civil Discourse

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Cultural Psychology notes issues with acculturation. While there are healthy ways a person can be integrated into a new culture, Heine notes that immigrants can be reduced to their alterity (“No, where are you really from?”) or they may be subsumed into the host culture through identity denial. Shockingly, members of a host culture may even…