本文的探讨目的是探究希腊籍美国人对保存和传递种族文化上的态度与做法，本文将选择229名美国新泽西市自我鉴定为正统的希腊籍美国人进行调查略论。总的来说，根据其受教育程度和经济地位，现有探讨中的调查对象已经取得了向上的流动性。他们在保护自己文化遗产上面展现出了很大的热情。通过讲希腊语，希腊正教教堂，礼拜，参加希腊组织，家庭价值观，与希腊的持续关系，参与政治活动，他们已经成功了。探讨结果不仅在六大领域文化保护的态度观点上指出了有用观点，还帮助我们更好的理解了文化适应和同化的过程。
我们的探讨结果显示，现有探讨中涉及到的希腊籍美国人并没有陷入到弥尔顿.哥顿所说的“straight line assimilation model”当中。这一理论认为，移民会脱离原来的社会，并且被美国社会同化的过程是由它来主导的。这种模型认为移民只有一种方式可以融入到主流社会。相反的是，英语论文，我们的探讨结果显示，不管是哪一代人，超过90%的受访者认为自己是希腊人或希腊籍美国人，超过90%的热在参加希腊遗产活动时感到自豪，英语论文范文，并和其他希腊人、希腊籍美国人保持着密切的联系。
The purpose of my study was to explore to what extent Greek-Americans hold attitudes and behaviors for the conservation and intergenerational transmission of their ethnic culture through a cross-sectional analysis of survey on 229 self-identified Greek American members of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of New Jersey. Overall, the respondents included in the current study had achieved upward mobility - as indicated by their high Education attainment and socio-economic status - and they had shown a remarkable high level of preservation of their cultural heritage. They succeeded through their affiliation to the Greek language, the Greek Orthodox Church, the church afternoon schools, their participation to various Greek organizations, their family values, the continuing contact with Greece and their participation in political activities. The results not only provided a quantitative view of the behaviors and attitudes towards culture preservation in the six domains, but also helped us to better understand the acculturation and assimilation process.
Our results support that Greek-Americans included in the current study did not fall into the “straight line assimilation model” as described by Milton Gordon (Gordon 1978). The straight line assimilation theory assumes that the immigrants shed their identifications with their home society and that assimilation into American society is prompted by host society institutions. This model suggests there is essentially but one path through which immigrants can be integrated into the mainstream society. On the contrary our results demonstrated that regardless of the generation, over 90% of the participants identified themselves as either ‘Greek’ or ‘Greek American’ and ~90% of the participants felt a sense of pride and a strong bond with other Greeks and Greek Americans when they attend a Greek heritage event. They are actively involved in the Greek Orthodox Church; they participate in Greek/Hellenic Organizations and support Greek National Interests through donations. All these data suggest that Greek Americans did not shed their identity in order to move up in the American society; rather, they have kept a bicultural identity. Second, the assumption that assimilation into the American society is prompted by the host society institutions does not hold either. For example, the majority of the participants (67%) responded that Greeks living in the United States should try to influence American foreign policy towards Greece and 64% of the participants responded that they had supported (through donations, fund raisers, public expressions of opinion, etc.) the Greek National Interests. This finding |
