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Change And Integration:the Study On The Adaptability Of Kazakh Immigrants In Beijing

Posted on:2013-01-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:E A S T AFull Text:PDF
GTID:2247330371488345Subject:Sociology
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With the urbanization of the world’s population and development of multicultural coexistence, as Oriental culture, the mainstream culture and minority culture in China at the same time having a strong invasion of Western culture. Kazakh immigrants in Beijing were also becoming increasingly eroded by the mainstream culture in China. In such a social background, the research purposes are the living conditions, the way of the forming of the cultural group, the future of the cultural development of the Kazakh immigrants in metropolis.Problems for the purpose of description, via integrated using of questionnaire investigation and structure type access method of sociology as well as the field investigation method of anthropology, are thesources of Beijing Kazakh immigrants, embedded live mode and social organization mode, family situation, social status andmental. And on this foundation, analyied thephenomena on the motivation and mode of Beijing Kazakh immigrants, the inheritance of the Kazakh tradition such as marriage, religious, pension, and national festival,vary from the selecting standard of spouse,declining on the senseof national identity, changes of traditional national customs and other cross-cultural contact.The main conclusions reached by this article are:Firstly, Beijing Kazakh immigrants arenot only inheriting the traditions of their national culture but also gradually spreading the areas of their ethnic culture and gradully absorbing the nutritionof the mainstream culture and international multicultur. Secondly, the temptation of the city life is, by being tools and value no involved way, accelerating the coming of the changes and assimilation of Kazakh tradition and custom especially, the "no national territories economic" is gradually erosion the loyalty sense of Beijing Kazakh immigrants on mother nation, by this means, the further leading is that thepersonalized development of the individual among Beijing Kazakh immigrants embedded in every corner of Beijing, for instance, cross-national marriages, transfer of life memory, alternation of emotion and mentation, destroying of the national moral, taboo, behavior and value standard, the features from the localization of the religious belief and national spirit. Lastly, Beijing Kazakh immigrants are, in the processing of the contradictions and unifing from traditional and modern culture approching a development law suited for city life of Kazakh people, such as. the national culture about across area processing wedding, circumcision, funeral, pension and national socialization, and take the advantage of local of conditions, they while also improving themselves on the ability of profession and the power of economy. and last success accomplished the city adaptability with group in Kazak way successfully.
Keywords/Search Tags:Beijing Kazakh Immigrants, Mainstream Culture, Traditional Culture, Urban Adaptability
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