Intercultural Contact: The Japanese in Rutherford County, Tennessee

The purpose of this research was to test specific predictions based on three general hypotheses: the integration hypothesis, the contact hypothesis, and the multiculturalism hypothesis. The sample included 218 Ukrainian immigrants with an average of 39 years. The average length of time residing in Portugal was 10 years. As regards the integration hypothesis, psychological adaptation and intercultural adaptation were predicted by integration, while sociocultural adaptation was only predicted by marginalization. Thus, the integration hypothesis was partially supported for Ukrainian immigrants living in Portugal. The contact hypothesis tended to be supported, as intercultural contact was predicted by higher positive attitudes toward Portuguese, and assimilation. However, integration has not emerged as a significant predictor of intercultural contact. This sample displayed a relatively low level of perceived discrimination. In line with the multiculturalism hypothesis, perceived discrimination was negatively related to tolerance, attitude towards Portuguese, attitude towards other immigrants, and positively related to preference for separation and marginalization. Findings are discussed considering the existing literature.

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Redefining the ethnic traditionalcuisine as an instrument of identity in the case of moldovan immigrants from Italy

10.52603/9789975333788.36 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Tatiana Rosca ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Exchange Process ◽

Family Context ◽

Social Boundaries ◽

Migration Process ◽

Cultural Traditions ◽

Intercultural Contact ◽

The Family

The paper highlights the role of food, as an instrument of identity and intercultural contact, the contribution of traditional ethnic dishes in the reconstruction of the family context, connected to the migration process, and food as a form of communication in a different social context. It reflects the consequences of the exchange process, in which changes take place both in the cultural traditions of Moldovan immigrants and in Italian customs, due to the fusion of elements and ingredients borrowed through reciprocity, thus diluting the mental and social boundaries.

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Book Review Ten Years of Rural Health Work. Rutherford County, Tennessee, 1924–1933 . W. Frank Walker. 82 pp. New York: The Commonwealth Fund.

New England Journal of Medicine ◽

10.1056/nejm193507112130233 ◽

1935 ◽

Vol 213 (2) ◽

pp. 88-89

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Rural Health ◽

Health Work ◽

Commonwealth Fund ◽

Rutherford County

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6. "Intercultural Contact and Interaction in the Ottoman Period: the Zaviye Kavak Baba and the Church of the Holy Forty Martyrs in the Real and Imaginary World of Christians and Moslems in the Town of Veliko Tàrnovo", Bulgarian Historical Review, 1-2, 2002, 13-54

Village, Town and People in the Ottoman Balkans, 16th-mid-19th Century ◽

10.31826/9781463225537-007 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 179-224

Keyword(s):

Historical Review ◽

Imaginary World ◽

Intercultural Contact ◽

The Real ◽

The Town ◽

The Church

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The Face of the Contemporary: Lost World Fantasies of Finding Lot’s Wife

Sodomscapes ◽

10.5422/fordham/9780823275205.003.0007 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Lowell Gallagher

Keyword(s):

Philosophical Anthropology ◽

The Self ◽

The Novel ◽

Cautionary Tale ◽

Intercultural Contact ◽

The Face ◽

Incarnational Theology

Chapter six examines a relatively unknown Victorian lost-world romance fantasy, Alfred Clark’s The Finding of Lot’s Wife (1896). The novel converts the legend of Lot’s wife, traditionally a cautionary tale of moral turpitude, into a stark lesson on the perilous consequences of intercultural contact in the Orientalizing theatre of colonial Palestine. Clark’s central contribution to the Sodom archive, however, resides in the novel’s prescient staging of a world in which insights associated with Hans Blumenberg’s philosophical anthropology of myth converge with the theological residue in Levinas’s writings – notably, the self-emptying action of kenosis, which Levinas takes from Pauline incarnational theology. Clark is no theologian, but his interest in the ethical provocations of kenosis is as keen as Levinas’s—and perhaps more viscerally arresting because of its narrative immediacy. This feature powerfully contributes to the innovation The Finding of Lot’s Wife brings to the Sodom archive. Clark’s ingenious intertwining of Blumenbergian and Levinasian treatments of myth effectively imagines the urgent contemporariness of the legacy of Lot’s wife. Clark shows how the lethal and reparative dimensions of that legacy asymmetrically impinge on each other, producing an arresting narrative image of dread commingled with hope and urgent consequence.

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