The fate of old-country values in a new land: A cross-national study of child rearing.

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A programme of research is described in which the values of young parents from four recent immigrant groups of North America (Italian-Canadians, Greek-Canadians, Japanese-Canadians, and Portuguese-Americans) are compared with the values of comparable social-class groups of parents residing in each of the old countries, and with comparable groups of established Canadian or American parents. The value domain focused on was child rearing: all participants in the study were parents of a 6-year-old child. The results provide support for the general methodology used to determine when values change and when they do not change. The study also elucidates the process of value adjustment for a variety of immigrant groups, and illustrates how and how much each group accommodates its pattern of values to North American norms, and how each group also maintains particular old country values. It is argued that behavioural research of this type is needed to reduce concerns about ethnic diversity on the part of residents of the host country, and to ease the adjustment of newcomers.

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