ABSTRACT
This chapter examines ethnic- and country-level differences by making controlled comparisons between the two groups and among the four countries. It explores the generality of the findings reported for all youth. The chapter examines the generality of model tested with the entire International Comparative Study of Ethnocultural Youth sample. It focuses on Turkish and Vietnamese youth to verify the generality of psychologists' findings to ethnicity and country of residence. The chapter addresses the questions whether acculturation experiences and adaptation outcomes are similar or varies between ethnic groups and across countries, and whether their theoretical model of immigrant youth adaptation is general or ethnic specific. The two immigrant groups, Vietnamese and Turks, have widely different backgrounds: The Vietnamese youth have a refugee background and are equally divided between first- and second-generation immigrants. The Turkish youth have a background of labor migration and are primarily second-generation immigrants.
