Nonacculturative

The authors conclude that the adaptive, nonacculturative elements of family organization, in the last analysis, are likely to persist just to the extent that prejudice, discrimination, and economic disadvantage remain the lot of the central-city Black families.

The pressures of the 1820s were nonacculturative, for they placed little strain on the evolving friendship of Dakota and white leaders despite the troubles of 1827.

This scheme, however, equates the sacred with the nonacculturative tradition and does not account for ways that some Ojibwe people have refused to fix what they consider sacred to particular, especially pre-Christian, forms.

For example, Zhou and Bankston's (1996) study on Vietnamese youth reveals that intense participation in Vietnamese community activities (which are nonacculturative in the classical view) may actually facilitate assimilation into American society.