TY - JOUR
T1 - Are Americans more successful at building intercultural relations than Japanese? A comparison and analysis of acculturation outcomes in Japan
AU - Komisarof, Adam
N1 - Funding Information:
I am grateful for Ms. Sanae Nakagawa for her statistical support, Professors Roger Goodman and Takehiko Kariya of the University of Oxford’s Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies for their advice while I was writing this manuscript, and also for the generous financial grants to develop this research received from the Hiroike Institute of Education at Reitaku University. Finally, I would like to thank Professor Dan Landis and my reviewers for their feedback on earlier versions of this manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Komisarof; licensee Springer.
PY - 2014/12/1
Y1 - 2014/12/1
N2 - Various Western and Japanese sources in the literature have concluded that Japanese people, who live in a nation with comparatively less ethnocultural diversity than the U.S., lag behind Americans in their capabilities to develop positive intercultural relations. To test these assumptions, this study compared the quality of acculturation outcomes between Japanese and Americans in Japan. Japanese and American scores were calculated for five dependent measures used to operationalize quality of intercultural relations. Four dependent variables revealed no significant differences. For the variable of organizational investiture, Japanese had significantly higher scores, so data were analyzed to discern why.
AB - Various Western and Japanese sources in the literature have concluded that Japanese people, who live in a nation with comparatively less ethnocultural diversity than the U.S., lag behind Americans in their capabilities to develop positive intercultural relations. To test these assumptions, this study compared the quality of acculturation outcomes between Japanese and Americans in Japan. Japanese and American scores were calculated for five dependent measures used to operationalize quality of intercultural relations. Four dependent variables revealed no significant differences. For the variable of organizational investiture, Japanese had significantly higher scores, so data were analyzed to discern why.
KW - Acculturation attitudes
KW - Acculturation in Japan
KW - Business intercultural communication
KW - Nihonjinron
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U2 - 10.1186/2193-1801-3-716
DO - 10.1186/2193-1801-3-716
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84958179774
VL - 3
SP - 1
EP - 15
JO - SpringerPlus
JF - SpringerPlus
SN - 2193-1801
IS - 1
M1 - 716
ER -