01548nam a2200229 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000200006024500920008026000410017230000100021350000200022352009410024365000140118465000100119865300110120865300240121965300190124365300250126265300160128765300150130310882932007-12-12       1980    bl uuuu  m   00u1 u    #d1 aSA, S. M. de A.  aCultural adaptation and barrier among Brazilian graduate students in the United States.  aFlorida: University of Floridac1980  a258p.  aTese Doutorado.  aThe subject of this study is the experience of Brazilian graduate students in the United States. Field data were drawn from various college campuses in the United States, but the bulk of this research was carried out in Hopewood, a married student apartmente complex in Gainesville, Florida, which has a group of Brazilian graduate students in residence. It is argued that group life in Hopewood and other communities in which Brazilian students reside resembles communitas which are formed to ease the stress encoutered in cross-cultural liminality. It is concluded that the student's liminal experience in the United States enhances his sensitivity to ethnocentric values concerning the cultures of his host and native country. On the other hand, this experience of cross-cultural liminality does not create a group of social innovators. Rather, the students' academic experience abroad tends to reinforce traditional, elitist values.  aeducation  aCurso  aCourse  aEducação superior  aEstados Unidos  aEstudante brasileiro  aGraduação  aGraduation