In many countries, individuals who have represented the majority group historically are decreasing in relative size and/or perceiving that they have diminished status and power compared with those self-identifying as immigrants or members of ethnic minority groups. These developments raise several salient and timely issues, including (a) how majority-group members’ cultural orientations change as a consequence of increasing intercultural contact due to shifting demographics; (b) what individual, group, cultural, and socio-structural processes shape these changes; and (c) what the implications of majority-group members’ acculturation are. Although research across several decades has examined the acculturation of individuals self-identifying as minority-group members, much less is known about how majority-group members acculturate in increasingly diverse societies. We present an overview of the state of the art in the emerging field of majority-group acculturation, identify what is known and needs to be known, and introduce a conceptual model to guide future research.

在许多国家，与那些自我认同为移民或少数族裔成员的人相比，历史上代表多数群体的个人的相对规模正在缩小和/或认为他们的地位和权力有所下降。这些发展提出了几个突出和及时的问题，包括 (a) 多数群体成员的文化取向如何因人口结构变化导致跨文化接触增加而发生变化；(b) 哪些个人、群体、文化和社会结构过程塑造了这些变化；(c) 多数群体成员的文化适应的含义是什么。尽管几十年来的研究已经检验了自我认同为少数群体成员的个人的文化适应情况，人们对多数群体成员如何适应日益多样化的社会知之甚少。我们概述了新兴领域的多数群体文化适应的最新技术，确定已知和需要知道的内容，并介绍一个概念模型来指导未来的研究。