Postassimilationist Ethnic Consumer Research: Qualifications and Extensions

Sren Askegaard, Eric J. Arnould and Dannie Kjeldgaard

Journal of Consumer Research, 2005, vol. 32, issue 1, 160-170

Abstract: Data collected among Greenlandic immigrants in Denmark fuel a critical examination of the postassimilationist model of ethnic consumer behavior in a non-North American context. We find that Greenlandic consumer acculturation is broadly supportive of the postassimilationist model. However, acculturative processes in the Danish context lead immigrants to adopt identity positions not entirely consistent with those reported in previous postassimilationist consumer research. Further, we identify transnational consumer culture as an acculturative agent not identified in previous research on consumer ethnicity and question the performative model of culture swapping. Finally, the analysis supports ideas about postassimilationist ethnicity as culture consumed. (c) 2005 by JOURNAL OF CONSUMER RESEARCH, Inc..

Date: 2005
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