ABSTRACT
F. L. Casmir's work has been praised for its philosophical and methodological contribution to mainstream intercultural communication research, and some scholars even describe it as having caused a "paradigm shift". An emerging area of research, the selective acculturation model, needs further testing and examination across different cultures and intercultural contexts. The severity of the culture shock that acculturating individuals experience depends on a number of factors, including age, personality, prior intercultural experiences, level of preparation, expectations, and interpersonal/social context. In order to show how the stress of the intercultural adaptation process is managed internally, R. K. Kim proposed a three-dimensional Stress–Adaptation– Growth Dynamic Model. The origin of the one-dimensional acculturation model is generally attributed to sociologist Milton Gordon, who proposed immigrants had to transition from home-culture maintenance to host-culture adoption and necessarily become assimilated in order to function successfully in their host society.
