2019 Volume 4 Issue 2
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Level of Acculturation and Accommodation Among University Students in ‎Punjab, Pakistan


Sadaf AKRAM¹*, Muhammad FAROOQ²
Abstract

Pakistan is a culturally diverse country and possesses a wide range of subcultural groups ‎i.e. Punjabi, Pathan, Baluchi, Sindhi, Kashmiri, and Muhajirs. These groups have norms ‎and values in their own practical lives. These norms affect lifestyles of groups. Students in ‎universities belong to different provinces and have different cultural values.  The students ‎of different ethnic groups spread their social, cultural and political ideologies within the ‎university’s campus. This research was an attempt to explore the experiences of student’s ‎cartels, and how they overcome their problems. The research identified how students run ‎through the acculturation process, and modify their behaviours regarding other ethnic ‎groups. The present research was carried out in four selected universities i.e. National ‎Textile University, Faisalabad, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, PMAS ARID, ‎Rawalpindi and International Islamic university, Islamabad.  A sample of 352 students ‎belonging to various ethnic groups was drawn using Yaki GAMINI sampling test. The ‎findings of inferential statistics showed that Pathan, Sindhi and Punjabi ethnic groups had ‎more accommodation and acculturation level, while Balti and Kashmiri students had a less ‎adjustment level in accommodation and acculturation‎‎‎‎‎.


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