ABSTRACT
Culturally diverse immigrant, refugee and other minority families are described by George and Louise Spindler (1987a and b) as facing cultural conflict and developing adaptive strategies in order to cope with the conflict. According to these authors, for example, many of the native American communities, such as the Menominee, choose to reaffirm their ethnic cultural orientation and to resist acculturation; others remain as transitional between the mainstream culture and their native culture, and finally others acculturate.
