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Derrick, Jann – 1990
Working as a family systems therapist with Native and non-Native families, the author observed two opposing social systems. Non-native families systems typify "The Box System," whereas native family systems portray "The Circle System." A few characteristics of the Circle System are: (1) a focus on life and peacefulness; (2) females and children…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, Anglo Americans, Cultural Differences
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Johnson, Colleen Leahy; Johnson, Frank Arvid – Social Forces, 1975
A report focusing on the Japanese Americans in Honolulu, investigates how ethnic membership determines the character of in-group and out-group interaction. Proposes that when categories of ascription are established on the basis of ethnicity, the norms defining and interpreting interaction also have ethnic components. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Asian Americans, Communication Problems, Cultural Influences
Garcia, Mario T. – Aztlan, 1975
Descriptors: American Indians, Anglo Americans, Culture Conflict, Mexican American History
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Jensen, Mary; Rosenfeld, Lawrence B. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1974
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Blacks, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Kagan, Spencer; Carlson, Helena – Developmental Psychology, 1975
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Assertiveness, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary School Students
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Shannon, Lael – Developmental Psychology, 1975
Investigated the development of temporal perspectives in disadvantaged subcultures and the cognitive structures underlying those perspectives. Subjects were 120 males, including 20 Anglo-Americans, American Indians, and Mexican Americans, from each of two age groups. (10-12 and 14-17). (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: American Indians, Anglo Americans, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Differences
Novak, Michael – Center Magazine, 1974
Defines the new ethnicity as an effort to attain an accurate self-knowledge on the part of members of the 3rd and 4th generation of southern and eastern European immigrants in the United States. Discusses opposing trends and argues for a new multicultural pluralism to replace the single recipe of the melting pot. (EH)
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Blacks, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background
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Muir, Donal – Sociology and Social Research, 1974
Four surveys of white student attitudes on the main campus of the University of Alabama, begun in 1963 and continued at 3-year intervals, indicate increasing acceptance of blacks. It would appear that the desegregation of any social system results in rapid rejection of "racial" roles for interaction, assuming that the setting has been…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Blacks, College Students, Identification (Psychology)
Keefe, Susan Emley – 1977
Mexican American extended family structure in the California towns of Santa Barbara, Santa Paula, and Oxnard was examined to assess the extent to which it fitted the "traditional" Mexican American family, and to compare Mexican American family structure with that of Anglo Americans. The effects of urbanization, acculturation, and…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Anglo Americans, Comparative Analysis, Extended Family
Stewart, David H. – Coll Engl, 1969
Descriptors: American Culture, Anglo Americans, Blacks, Ethnic Groups
Navarro, M. Susana – 1978
This study was designed to examine Chicano and Anglo children's performance on several measures of field dependence/independence (FDI), including the Portable Rod and Frame Test (PRFT), the Children's Embedded Figures Test (CEFT), the Human Figure Drawing Task (HFDT), and the Block Design Test. Also examined was the relationship between FDI…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Anglo Americans, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis
Gridley, Marion E. – 1973
Maria Tallchief has earned a lasting place in the history of dance as one of the world's greatest ballerinas. She is also an American Indian. She was born in 1925 in Fairfax, Oklahoma; her father was a full-blooded Osage Indian, her mother was of Scotch-Irish and Dutch ancestry. Discovery of oil on the Osage Reservation had brought wealth to all…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, American Indians, Anglo Americans, Books
Gutierrez, Veronica – 1980
The causes and effects of resistance to the acknowledgement and appreciation of the language skills and characteristics of United States Southwest bilinguals can be seen in both the Hispanic and Anglo communities. The cultural inferiority ideology of Americans to Mexicans is a historical cause of this resistance, and it is reflected in the…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, English
Shannon, Lyle W. – 1968
A 1958-65 study of Mexican Americans, Negroes, and Anglos in Racine, Wisconsin, provided researchers with an opportunity to see: (1) if world view and level of aspiration were more closely related to race and ethnicity or to sociologically meaningful categories of people in the urban-industrial society, and (2) how world view and level of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Anglo Americans, Aspiration, Blacks
Country Women's Council, U.S.A. – 1970
Sponsored by the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW) and Country Women's Council (CWC), the seminar marked the first time that: (1) American Indian women met on a national basis and (2) Anglo women met with them. Attending the week-long seminar were 67 delegates representing 43 tribes from 23 states. Participants were selected who would…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, Anglo Americans, Cultural Background
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