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The Dissertation Committee for Tatiana Borisovna Segura Certifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation: Defining Self: Negotiating Cultural, Gender, and Ethnic Identity in a Short-term Study Abroad Program in Russia Committee: Thomas J. Garza, Supervisor Jacqueline M. Henkel John S. Kolsti Hana Pichova Gilbert C. Rappaport Samuel Keith Walters
Defining Self: Negotiating Cultural, Gender, and Ethnic Identity in a Short-term Study Abroad Program in Russia by Tatiana Borisovna Segura, M.A. Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Texas at Austin December 2008
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Page 5 and 6: Acknowledgements I would like to ex
Page 7 and 8: Students belonging to ethnic minori
Page 9 and 10: Overview of gender-related research
Page 11 and 12: Recommendations for study abroad pr
Page 13 and 14: environment I found myself in, and
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Page 17 and 18: Acculturation is the process of ada
Page 19 and 20: their knowledge of the Russian cult
Page 21 and 22: STUDY ABROAD Chapter II: The Review
Page 23 and 24: learning more about self. Instituti
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Page 29 and 30: Identity and language learning Acco
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Page 33 and 34: Variables that affect acculturation
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Page 37 and 38: In the study abroad context, howeve
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Page 41 and 42: called “gender-effect” is no lo
Page 43 and 44: eport in 1980, women do two thirds
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Page 49 and 50: of glasnost promoted by Gorbachev r
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influential change in perceiving th
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analysis of the experiences of a fe
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e arrived at, including the level o
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and following Hello’s et al. conc
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negative attitude towards Islam in
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against Russia exists. Brym and Deg
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Arminio 20). Since the subject of t
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It is important to keep in mind, ho
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DATA COLLECTING TECHNIQUES This stu
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At the conclusion of the pilot stud
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in abundance, it is the theoretical
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spell out things that are “sensit
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Acculturation Culture shock Cultura
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CULTURE SHOCK Chapter IV: Accultura
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to a new cultural environment, and
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American countries tend towards the
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It just seemed really weird to be b
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cross-cultural adjustment implies t
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stay in the dormitory and living wi
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could be also that women are more w
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eing interested in fashionable clot
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I saw that the Russians took their
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in Moscow: the Independent Women’
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my fate depends on me, and not on t
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Vsekh Form Diskriminatsii v Otnoshe
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socio-cultural context, including t
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sexual freedom or promiscuity of Ru
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As for catcalling situations, two f
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Moscow. The suburbs of Moscow that
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In terms of inter-gender behavior,
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domestic duties. This real inequali
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esearch on Russian women’s attitu
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policemen pulls you over, it’s pr
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favoritism or, on the contrary, bia
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Chapter VI: Ethnicity Analysis ETHN
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among those arrested, prosecuted, i
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Azerbaidzhan are not that rare in R
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Russians were literally segregated
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As an American you stand out… eve
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Azerbaijani, Georgians, Tajiki, etc
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usage; and 2) the confusion non-nat
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hypothesize that Russians use it pr
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purpose of the training of the inha
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The incident described by the parti
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incidents of ethnic intolerance hap
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and cultural background influence h
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She believed that Russians and Amer
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Rita expressed an opinion that Russ
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same way: familial and hospitable.
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I had Russian people telling me thi
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viewed her as “chernaya” [black
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eflecting on physical appearance an
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The results of the study reveal tha
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Another unexpected finding of the r
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going abroad is gradually increasin
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their trip goals more realistic; an
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5. Were you ever denied access to c
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Carlson, J., et al. Study Abroad: T
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Johnson, Ericka. Dreaming of a Mail
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Olson, David H., and Mikhail S. Mat
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Vondrova, Kristine. "The Value of S
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