There remains an obvious gap in the acculturation literature, which relates to cultural change associated with the majority/dominant group. This paper explores how majority members react to a perceived expectation from minority members that majority members should undergo cultural change. A study was conducted exploring how majority members' perceptions of a demand by minority members that the majority should adopt the minority culture affects the majority members' preferences for minority acculturation, and whether effects are mediated by perceptions of symbolic threat. Two hundred sixty-six participants who self-reported being white British completed an online survey. A model was hypothesized whereby a perception that minority members demand that the majority takes on the minority culture predicted perceived symbolic threat, which was in turn negatively associated with a desire that minority members should maintain the minority culture, and positively with a desire that minority members should adopt the majority culture. Results supported the hypothesized model, with all individual paths and indirect effects significant in the hypothesized directions. Symbolic threat mediated the effect of perceived demand for minority culture adoption on majority preferences for minority acculturation. Findings are discussed in relation to implications for intergroup relations in culturally plural societies.

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探索多数成员认为少数成员希望多数成员采用少数文化的群体间后果

文化适应文献中仍然存在明显的差距，这与与多数/主导群体相关的文化变革有关。本文探讨了多数成员如何对少数成员的感知期望做出反应，即多数成员应该进行文化变革。进行了一项研究，探讨多数成员对少数成员要求多数成员应采用少数文化的看法如何影响多数成员对少数群体文化适应的偏好，以及影响是否由对象征性威胁的感知所调节。266 名自称是英国白人的参与者完成了一项在线调查。假设了一个模型，即少数成员要求多数人接受少数文化的感知预测了感知到的象征性威胁，这反过来与少数成员应该保持少数文化的愿望负相关，并且与少数成员的愿望正相关应该采用多数文化。结果支持假设的模型，在假设的方向上，所有单独的路径和间接影响都显着。象征性威胁介导了对少数民族文化采用的感知需求对少数民族文化适应的多数偏好的影响。讨论了与文化多元社会中群体间关系的影响有关的研究结果。