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bicultural
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bi·cul·tur·al  (b-klchr-l)
adj.
Of or relating to two distinct cultures in one nation or geographic region: bicultural education.

bi·cultur·al·ism n.


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By the measure of language and institutional participation (Vereinwesen), Kazal argues, Germans were well on the road to assimilation in the decades immediately prior to the First World War, even though German neighborhoods maintained German associations and practiced, to use another felicitous formulation by Kathleeen Conzen, "a kind of biculturalism in spite of structural assimilation.
Measures used to capture the cultural dimension of acculturation were cultural enjoyment, ethnic identity, biculturalism and cultural orientation.
Biculturalism involves a near native-like knowledge of two cultures, and includes the ability to respond effectively to the different demands of both cultures.
 
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