This article explores the roles of on-line publications in promoting ethnic communication. Through a case study of the on-line Chinese language publications, it examines the potentials of such publications in supplementing and expanding the functions of the traditional ethnicmedia, strengthening cultural and communal ties of the ethnic groups, and mobilizing them for action The authors argue th...

This study examined whether the acculturation of ethnic identity is first evident in more public situations with greater opportunity for intercultural interaction and eventually penetrates more intimate situations. It also investigated whether situational variations in identity are associated with cross-cultural adaptation. First-generation (G1), second-generation (G2) and mixed-parentage secon...

The interface of religious identities, with state and politics is creating communal, ethnic and sectarian conflicts in South Asia. In spite of its geographical vastness and thousands of communities, the region remains conceived by sociologists in terms of religious identities. By continuing to discuss religious experiences, identities and conflicts in majority-minority terms, sociological disco...

This article discusses findings on inter- and intra-ethnic friendship choices among Pakistani, Bangladeshi white students within three schools characterised by varying ethnic composition levels of diversity. Although many participants perceived ethnically diverse positively, commonly described the majority their friends and, in particular, close friends, as belonging to same group. Pakistani st...

Cultural competency is about the ability of individuals and systems to respond respectfully and effectively to the cultural needs of peoples of all cultures. Its general attributes include knowledge, attitudes, skills and professional judgment. In Pacific mental health, 'the cultural' is generally understood to be ethnic culture. Accordingly, Pacific cultural competencies assume ethnic specific...

This study examines status consumption and socio-cultural tensions between wealthy Turkish indigenes newly enriched Kurdish migrants in Şanlıurfa, an underdeveloped city Turkey. The article focuses on ethnicity, which enables the construction negotiation of consumer identities (re)production distinctions competing groups under conditions marketization. Ethnic capital, a subcategory social cultu...