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. Integration & Culture Reproduction:
Finally call it Home
Acculturation in contemporary societies has shifted its objectives from the situation whereby a single dominant culture has broad control of indigenous peoples into the formation of a culturally pluralistic society where ethno-cultural groups have combined in order to live harmoniously together.
Professor John Berry from Queen’s University of Canada, inhis 2005 paper, claims that these mutually agreed adaptations of combining ethno-cultural groups may be a long-term process taking place over years or possibly even generations. At a social level, matters such as political, economic, historical and cultural factors may impact upon the adaptation process and at the individual level some may find it easy while others challenging. However, by progressive contact with other cultures and engagement in differing socialactivities, even the individuals who find integration difficult will discover that they will slowly adapt and accept the changes.
In my project, while two of the participants have lived in Australia for 8 and 11 years, the third informant has been absent from her birth country for 38 years. My data shows that the first two participants clearly practise the Chinese way of cooking, however, one of them also shows a strong interest in learning how to cook local food. For example, as well as her Chinese cooking appliances she also had a toaster and a full set of cutleries. During the interview, the third informant expressed that she had no issue with western food, particularly for the breakfast, as she and her husband often had weetbixor toast; however, it could be optimistic to think that mature age Chinese immigrants will, over time, readily adapt and even adopt this new culture and warm to the new cuisine available to them.
I, the participants in my project and many others are merely part of the process of culture reproduction. In time, we will finally call this land home.
Epilogue
This small project is only an attempt to disclose how the personal issues of mature aged Chinese immigrants have a public face.
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发表于 29-10-2018 11:04:18
) as well as saturated fat. So, you may have to have some changes in your diet. With regularly exercising, you'll be all right over time. 
Apparently not as adaptive as you @yearshappy. I also love making traditional Chinese food, i.e. home-made rice liquor, moon cake, stir-fried pork wrapped in bread. 
