ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the question of the extent to which parents function as a transmitter of norms and values influencing their children's interethnic contact. Children often adopt the attitudes expressed by their parents, as all port and value socialization theorists have pointed out. To investigate the effect of parental endogamy preferences and interethnic contacts on children's endogamy preferences and interethnic contacts, a structural equation model (SEM) was calculated. Cultural transmission is defined as the process of acquisition of behaviours, attitudes or technologies through imprinting conditioning, imitation, active teaching and learning or combinations of these'. One way the intergenerational transmission of contact behaviour might work is via the potential for interethnic contacts families offer. Assimilation theory would anticipate structural integration and linguistic assimilation to be conducive to other forms of integration and thus go hand in hand with social integration.
