This paper documents the speed of evolution (or lack thereof) of a range of values and beliefs of different generations of US immigrants, and interprets the evidence in the light of a model of socialization and identity choice. Convergence to the norm differs greatly across cultural attitudes. Moreover, results obtained studying higher generation immigrants differ from those found when the analysis is limited to the second generation and imply a lower degree of persistence than previously thought. Persistence is also country specific, in the sense that the country of origin of one’s ancestors matters for the pattern of generational convergence.

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文化：持久性与进化

本文记录了不同时代的美国移民的一系列价值观和信念的发展速度（或缺乏这种发展速度），并根据社会化和身份选择模型解释了证据。不同文化态度对准则的融合差异很大。此外，研究较高世代移民获得的结果不同于将分析限于第二代移民时发现的结果，这表明持久性程度低于先前的想法。持久性也是特定于国家的，从某种意义上说，祖先的原籍国对世代融合的模式至关重要。