Cultural dissimilation

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'''Cultural dissimilation''' is the process in which a [[minority group]] or [[culture]] comes to unresemble a society's [[Dominant culture|majority group]] or fully rejects the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group. The [[melting pot]] model is diametrically opposed to this concept. A related term is "cultural segregation", which describes the process of becoming economically and socially segregated from another society while retaining elements of one's former culture. Cultural dissimilation is opposed to [[multiculturalism]] (or a "[[cultural mosaic]]"), as dissimilation involves a minority group rejecting the dominant culture, while multiculturalism promotes the coexistence and preservation of multiple cultures.{{cite journal | last1=Batkhina | first1=Anastasia | last2=Berry | first2=John W. | last3=Jurcik | first3=Tomas | last4=Dubrov | first4=Dmitrii | last5=Grigoryev | first5=Dmitry | title=More similarity if different, more difference if similar: Assimilation, colorblindness, multiculturalism, polyculturalism, and generalized and specific negative intergroup bias | journal=Europe's Journal of Psychology | publisher=Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID) | volume=18 | issue=4 | date=2022-11-30 | issn=1841-0413 | doi=10.5964/ejop.3715 | doi-access=free | pages=369–390 | pmid=36605093 | pmc=9780736 | url=https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/download/3715/3715.pdf | access-date=2025-11-12}} Other closely related concepts are [[Acculturation#Theory_of_Dimensional_Accrual_and_Dissociation|'''dissociation''']] from American scholar Eric Mark Kramer's theory of Dimensional Accrual and Dissociation (DAD){{Sfnm|Kramer|1988|Kramer|1992|Kramer|1997a|Kramer|2003|Kramer|2011|Kramer|2012}} and [[Acculturation#Fourfold models|'''separation''']] from the fourfold models.{{cite journal | last=Berry | first=John W. | title=Immigration, Acculturation, and Adaptation | journal=[[Applied Psychology (journal)|Applied Psychology]] | year=1997 | volume=46 | issue=1 | page=10 | doi=10.1111/j.1464-0597.1997.tb01087.x}} Though anthropologists have more often used antonym of '''dissimilation''', '''[[assimilation]]''', in literature regarding minorities, several others have made the term the crux of their research.{{cite book |last1=Sözer |first1=Hande |title=Managing Invisibility: Dissimulation and Identity Maintenance among Alevi Bulgarian Turks |date=24 July 2014 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-27919-3 |page=41 |url=https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Managing_Invisibility/iw6JBAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA41&printsec=frontcover |access-date=20 April 2026 |language=en}}

'''Cultural dissimilation''' is the process in which a [[minority group]] or [[culture]] comes to unresemble a society's [[Dominant culture|majority group]] or fully rejects the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group. The [[melting pot]] model is diametrically opposed to this concept. A related term is "cultural segregation", which describes the process of becoming economically and socially segregated from another society while retaining elements of one's former culture. Cultural dissimilation is opposed to [[multiculturalism]] (or a "[[cultural mosaic]]"), as dissimilation involves a minority group rejecting the dominant culture, while multiculturalism promotes the coexistence and preservation of multiple cultures.{{cite journal | last1=Batkhina | first1=Anastasia | last2=Berry | first2=John W. | last3=Jurcik | first3=Tomas | last4=Dubrov | first4=Dmitrii | last5=Grigoryev | first5=Dmitry | title=More similarity if different, more difference if similar: Assimilation, colorblindness, multiculturalism, polyculturalism, and generalized and specific negative intergroup bias | journal=Europe's Journal of Psychology | publisher=Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID) | volume=18 | issue=4 | date=2022-11-30 | issn=1841-0413 | doi=10.5964/ejop.3715 | doi-access=free | pages=369–390 | pmid=36605093 | pmc=9780736 | url=https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/download/3715/3715.pdf | access-date=2025-11-12}} Other closely related concepts are [[Acculturation#Theory_of_Dimensional_Accrual_and_Dissociation|'''dissociation''']] from American scholar Eric Mark Kramer's theory of Dimensional Accrual and Dissociation (DAD){{Sfnm|Kramer|1988|Kramer|1992|Kramer|1997a|Kramer|2003|Kramer|2011|Kramer|2012}} and [[Acculturation#Fourfold models|'''separation''']] from the fourfold model of [[acculturation]].{{cite journal | last=Berry | first=John W. | title=Immigration, Acculturation, and Adaptation | journal=[[Applied Psychology (journal)|Applied Psychology]] | year=1997 | volume=46 | issue=1 | page=10 | doi=10.1111/j.1464-0597.1997.tb01087.x}} Though anthropologists have more often used antonym of '''dissimilation''', '''[[assimilation]]''', in literature regarding minorities, several others have made the term the crux of their research.{{cite book |last1=Sözer |first1=Hande |title=Managing Invisibility: Dissimulation and Identity Maintenance among Alevi Bulgarian Turks |date=24 July 2014 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-27919-3 |page=41 |url=https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Managing_Invisibility/iw6JBAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA41&printsec=frontcover |access-date=20 April 2026 |language=en}}

== Cultural dissimulation ==

== Cultural dissimulation ==