Discussthe acculturative strategies adopted by individuals during the courseof acculturation.

Theacculturative strategies adopted by individuals during the course ofacculturation are as follows:

• Integration: This is an attitude of maintaining one’s own cultural traits and identity while staying in daily interaction with other culture.

• Assimilation: This is an attitude of quitting one’s own culture and becoming part of another culture. It results in the loss of one’s culture and identity.

• Separation: This attitude is of avoiding interaction with other culture and holding on to one’s own culture and glorifying the cultural identity.

• Marginalisation: This attitude is of little interest in maintaining one’s culture and little interest in having interaction with other culture. People are indecisive about their actions and continue to stay with a lot of stress.