Psych thoughts: bicultural/dissociation

[azurelunatic]

I wonder if anyone's ever done a study on the incidence of dissociative coping mechanisms in people identifying as bicultural, especially when the two cultures in question are distinctly separated, say one culture in the home, and the other culture in the school or workplace.

I might be really interested in that study and the results.

Comments

[rusty-boscoes.livejournal.com]

Really my only point was that the schism couldn't really be a clean clefting of the two cultures as we perceive them. In fact, I think that separating the cultures would be an artifical separation. That being said, I think bi-lingualism would have a huge impact on it; actually, the originator of the concept of the dissociative-state was studying a woman with a severe psychotic disorder; she spoke multiple languages, but would find moments where she could only speak one.
I'm sorry if I appear stupid--I've given a lot of thought to these concepts.

[azurelunatic]

I was thinking about what a huge impact being at home and being called by one name, and being at school, and being called by another, had on me, and I was thinking that if something as simple as that did what it did to me, what interesting high-function dissociative coping methods there might be for people with more of a difference between their home lives and school lives.