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EFFECTS OF CULTURES AND LANGUAGES ON SELF CONCEPTIONS *
Author(s) -
Tzeng Oliver C.S.,
Neel Robert,
Landis Dan
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1080/00207598108247407
Subject(s) - indigenous culture , turkish , ethnology , humanities , indigenous , sociology , psychology , linguistics , philosophy , biology , ecology
Cultural evolution in self conceptions under the influence of external cultures was explored through semantic differential ratings of Turkish English‐speaking (TK/EN) students. As the criterion for inter‐cultural and inter‐language comparisons, the “norm” conceptions were obtained from two indigenous samples that represent the American/English (AM/EN) culture and the Turkey/Turkish (TK/TK) culture respectively. Results indicated significant transfusion effects of the “providing” (AM/EN) culture on self conceptions of the “receiving” (TK/EN) culture ‐ in desaturating as well as elevating the semantic intensities of various aspects of self identity over the “native” (TK/TK) culture. An implication was made that future cross‐cultural interactions should become an effective mutual learning process for improving inter‐cultural and inter‐group heterogeneities and conflicts, rather than for spliting a homogeneous indigenous culture into many fragmented and isolated entities.