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While collecting demographics, the nurse learns an American patient is married to an immigrant from another country. What does this patient's marriage exemplify?
 
  1. Assimilation
  2. Socialization
  3. Acculturation
  4. Ethnicity

Question 2

An older patient tells the nurse about being born in a different country and having visited the home country many times throughout the years. The nurse realizes that the patient is explaining which aspect of culture?
 
  1. Socialization
  2. Religious preference
  3. Heritage consistency
  4. Acculturation



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Answer to Question 1

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Explanation: 1. Marital assimilation occurs when members of one group intermarry with members of another group.
2. Socialization is the process of being raised within a culture and acquiring the characteristics of that group.
3. Acculturation is changing one's cultural patterns to those of the host society.
4. Ethnicity is a group of people who share a common and distinctive racial, national, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage.

Answer to Question 2

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Explanation: 1. Socialization is the process of being raised within a culture and acquiring the characteristics of that group.
2. Visiting a home country is not a characteristic of religious preference. Religion is the belief in a divine power as the creator of the universe, and provides a system of beliefs, practices, and ethical values.
3. One aspect of heritage consistency is frequent visits to a person's country of origin.
4. Acculturation is the process of adapting to or becoming absorbed into a dominant culture.





 

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