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Bruce Wexler explores the social implications of the close and changing neurobiological relationship between the individual and the environment, with particular attention to the difficulties individuals face in adulthood when the environment changes beyond their ability to maintain the fit between existing internal structure and external reality.
These difficulties are evident in:
The experience of immigrants:
The clue of these difficulties comes from the experience of migrants to a new culture, in who suddenly find themselves in an environment that not match internal structure modeled on the rearing environment in their native land.
A common response is to recreate a microcopy of their native culture in their home and their friendship circles. Still, like bereavement, it is prolonged and difficult struggle to reshape internal structure to match the new, general cultural environment.
The children of immigrant families are more successful than their parents at the necessary internal transformations, which often leading to heightened and problematic differences between immigrant parents and their children.
"Brain And Culture" Neurobiology, Ideology, And Social Change, Bruce E. Wexl, 2006, pages 8 - 9
The Brain and the Meeting of Different Cultures
Bruce Wexler explores the social implications of the close and changing neurobiological relationship between the individual and the environment, with particular attention to the difficulties individuals face in adulthood when the environment changes beyond their ability to maintain the fit between existing internal structure and external reality.
These difficulties are evident in:
- Bereavement.
- The meeting of different cultures (the experience of immigrants).
- The phenomenon of interethnic violence.
The experience of immigrants:
The clue of these difficulties comes from the experience of migrants to a new culture, in who suddenly find themselves in an environment that not match internal structure modeled on the rearing environment in their native land.
A common response is to recreate a microcopy of their native culture in their home and their friendship circles. Still, like bereavement, it is prolonged and difficult struggle to reshape internal structure to match the new, general cultural environment.
The children of immigrant families are more successful than their parents at the necessary internal transformations, which often leading to heightened and problematic differences between immigrant parents and their children.
"Brain And Culture" Neurobiology, Ideology, And Social Change, Bruce E. Wexl, 2006, pages 8 - 9
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