{"product_id":"the-emerging-monoculture-assimilation-and-the-model-minority-9780275973124","title":"The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Eric Kramer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Praeger\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Praeger\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKramer brings together experts from a variety of minority backgrounds and from around the world to give their perspectives on the most pervasive ideology today, globalism. The basic premise is that a developed country is different from a developed community. They need not be mutually exclusive, but neither is it assumed that they are necessarily consonant. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe various essays offer answers to such vital questions as What does it mean to become a 'global citizen'? and What does it mean to be a 'model minority' in a global economy? The process of becoming a mainstream person involves being first marginalized with the implication that something is inadequate about one's self. The process of assimilationism is manifested as various forms of enforced and\/or rewarded acculturation. With the vast human migration currently underway, the notion of assimilation has become a global phenomenon. What is occurring, Kramer and his colleagues demonstrate, is a worldwide shift from the village milieu to the city lifestyle. This migration is seen as a polycentric and global phenomenon whereby the promised land is nowhere in particular, but, instead, a way of life and mindset, an urban lifestyle. This process is far more than a simple change in geography. Moving from the village to the cityscape involves a mutation in worldview and self-identity. Additional questions asked throughout the collection are What set of persuasive assumptions are leading the world in this direction? and What might be lost in the process? A provocative collection for scholars, students, and other researchers involved with development studies, multiculturalism, and urbanization.","brand":"Praeger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45087028543639,"sku":"9780275973124","price":10832.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780275973124.webp?v=1767266427","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-emerging-monoculture-assimilation-and-the-model-minority-9780275973124","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}