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Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 ([personal profile] azurelunatic) wrote2004-07-27 01:39 am
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Psych thoughts: bicultural/dissociation

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.
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[identity profile] rusty-boscoes.livejournal.com 2004-07-27 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
Depends on which one was learned first.

[identity profile] rusty-boscoes.livejournal.com 2004-07-30 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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