bicultural — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Adapted to two separate cultures.

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   [W]ithout English, I would not be how I am: a bilingual and bicultural person at home in both English and Japanese.

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   Also as unfortunate are the overt and covert deficit notions held by teachers and administrators towards bicultural students; deficit notions, extended, by assocation, to bicultural parents. These misguided notions are propagated, for the most part, devoid of any systematic analysis that directly implicates the oppressive social, economic, political, cultural and linguistic forces that structurally shape and perpetuate the exclusion, exploitation, and domination of bicultural communities.

Noun

1. A person belonging to two cultures.

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   Compared with ethnic affirmers, biculturals are better educated; have higher incomes, socioeconomic status, and self-esteem; and are more involved in local social networks.

   Persons without a migratory background may also have a transcultural identity—and not everybody who is confronted with at least two cultures is automatically supposed to have a transcultural identity[…]. Thus, biculturals do not necessarily have a transcultural identity.

   With every win, coach Regragui dreams louder and louder of actually becoming World Champion, and urges all Moroccans, biculturals and binationals across the world to openly do the same.