Although the ways that immigrants relate to UK culture has been a hot topic since the EU-referendum, little attention has been given to how majority group members such as Host Country Nationals (HCNs) relate to immigrants’ culture. Thus, we explored English HCNs’ globalisation-based proximal-acculturation – the extent to which they prefer to adopt aspects of immigrants’ cultures and/or maintain their national culture. Using two-step cluster analysis, a pilot study (N = 63) revealed a separated, integrated, and undifferentiated cluster, with separated HCNs perceiving cultural diversity more as a threat and less as an enrichment. Using latent profile analysis in a second study (N = 220) also revealed a three strategy-solution, identifying assimilated, integrated and separated profiles. Again we examined how these strategies differed across perceptions of cultural threat and enrichment as well as other psychosocial characteristics: identifying with fellow English citizens, recognizing cultural differences whilst not being culturally embedded (constructive marginalization), and various forms of intergroup contact. Separated HCNs identified more with fellow English citizens, endorsed less constructive marginalization, perceived less cultural enrichment yet more cultural threat than HCNs following some of the other strategies. These results stress that the onus of cultural adoption lies with both groups – minorities and majority members – with English HCNs showing distinct proximal-acculturation strategies. Lastly, when exploring a variable-centred approach, proximal-acculturation orientations (cultural maintenance/adoption) mediated the relationship between cultural threat, cultural enrichment, and intergroup contact on positive feelings towards immigrants. Thus, the ways that HCNs acculturate may provide a new route towards harmonious intergroup relations.

尽管自欧盟公投以来，移民与英国文化的联系方式一直是热门话题，但对于诸如东道国国民（HCN）之类的多数团体成员与移民文化之间的联系却鲜有关注。因此，我们探讨了英国HCN基于全球化的近端培养-他们在多大程度上倾向于采用移民文化和/或维持其民族文化。通过两步聚类分析，一项试点研究（N = 63）揭示了一个分离的，整合的和未分化的聚类，其中分离的HCN认为文化多样性更多地是一种威胁，而不是一种丰富。在第二项研究中使用潜在特征分析（N= 220）还揭示了三个策略解决方案，确定了被吸收，整合和分离的配置文件。我们再次研究了这些策略在对文化威胁和丰富化以及其他社会心理特征的理解上是如何不同的：与英国同胞一起认同，承认文化差异而不被文化所嵌入（建设性边缘化）以及各种形式的群体间接触。与采用其他某些策略的HCN相比，分开的HCN更加认同同胞英国公民，支持较少的建设性边缘化，较少的文化丰富和更多的文化威胁。这些结果强调，文化采用的责任在于这两个群体（少数群体和多数成员），而英语HCN则表现出截然不同的近端培养策略。最后，在探索以变量为中心的方法时，近端培养取向（文化维持/采用）介导了文化威胁，文化丰富和群体间接触移民的积极情感之间的关系。因此，HCN的积累方式可能会提供一条通往和谐的群体间关系的新途径。