Acculturation and the Acceptance of Contact among Hispanic and Mainstream Navy Recruits

摘要

The hypothesis that Hispanic Navy recruits will find contact behaviors more acceptable than Mainstream Navy recruits was not supported. This is consistent with many other findings of the current project showing similarities in the responses of the Hispanic and Mainstream recruits. One finding of this study was that those Mainstream recruits who have not been exposed to other cultures were more likely to disapprove of contact behaviors which the more culturally-sophisticated Mainstream and Hispanic recruits found acceptable. The similarities found between Mainstream and Hispanic recruits seem to be due to the Hispanics' responding in terms of increasing the social desirability of their responses within the context of the majority Anglo culture. (Author)