Colonised indigenous minorities around the world are constantly navigating the complex space between their heritage culture and mainstream society. In this paper, we explore how embeddedness in heritage cultural values, beliefs, and practises influence the behaviours of indigenous minorities, particularly during intercultural contact with the post-colonial majority where values, beliefs, and practises often clash. To support our theorising, we introduce the concept of cultural embeddedness, relating to enculturation in one’s heritage cultural values, beliefs, and practises. We then introduce the Dual-Pathways Model of Embeddedness to Culturally Valued Behaviours for Indigenous Minorities (DPM), which seeks to outline the two separate but interrelated pathways through which cultural embeddedness leads to culturally valued behaviours. The dual pathways include an implicit pathway, which begins with cultural values, and an explicit pathway, which begins with cultural practises. We use an indigenous approach, drawing on the first author’s experiences as an indigenous Māori in New Zealand to illustrate the concepts of the DPM. The model attempts to integrate the various ways in which cultural identity has been defined by indigenous authors into a single theory. We invite future qualitative and quantitative research, especially by indigenous scholars, to challenge and/or validate the DPM.

世界各地的殖民地少数民族不断在其遗产文化和主流社会之间寻找复杂的空间。在本文中，我们探讨了遗产文化价值，信仰和习俗的嵌入如何影响土著少数群体的行为，尤其是在与后殖民多数之间的文化交流中，价值观，信仰和习俗经常发生冲突。为了支持我们的理论，我们引入了文化嵌入性的概念，与人的遗产文化价值，信仰和习俗的培养有关。然后，我们介绍了针对土著少数族裔的文化价值行为的嵌入性的双路径模型（DPM），该模型旨在概述文化嵌入性导致文化价值的行为的两个独立但相互关联的途径。双重途径包括从文化价值开始的隐性途径和从文化实践开始的显性途径。我们使用土著人的方法，借鉴第一作者在新西兰作为土著人毛利人的经验来说明DPM的概念。该模型试图将土著作者定义文化身份的各种方式整合到一个单一的理论中。我们邀请未来的定性和定量研究（尤其是土著学者）对DPM进行挑战和/或验证。该模型试图将土著作者定义文化身份的各种方式整合到一个单一的理论中。我们邀请未来的定性和定量研究（尤其是土著学者）对DPM进行挑战和/或验证。该模型试图将土著作者定义文化身份的各种方式整合到一个单一的理论中。我们邀请未来的定性和定量研究（尤其是土著学者）对DPM进行挑战和/或验证。