ABSTRACT
I have spent two decades investigating the social anthropologies of various groups globally. From this I have learnt that, made very obvious by the work of those such as Gudykunst (2005), there is no shortage of social and cultural models to describe the plethora of contexts, discourses, and identities. I have hence brought a range of models together in my attempt to describe a Northeast Asian context, and hence relevant models together into a one umbrella model—the Transition model.
