Chinese University Students and Their Experiences of Acculturation at an Ethnic Christian Church
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- 1. Temple University, United States
- 2. University of California Los Angeles, United States
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This paper examines the experiences of Chinese international students from East Coast University (a pseudonym) in the United States through their participation in a Chinese ethnic-based Christian church (CCC). Employing ethnographic-based fieldwork, the study highlights how Chinese international students see their experiences in CCC as a source of acculturation to U.S. society. However, the students evidence little understanding of the reality that they are in fact being acculturated to a subculture within U.S. society that at times embraces values contradictory to those of progressive-oriented East Coast University.
Keywords: acculturation, Chinese international students, diversity mission, ethnographic methods, subculture
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