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Item Responding to Growing Diversity: a Case Study of Mankato, Minnesota(2018-08) Lindsay, CarynThrough the lens of social cognitive theory, this study explored the responses of European Americans in the Mankato/North Mankato metropolitan area in south central Minnesota to increasing numbers of immigrants from Africa and the Middle East. It identified activities and perspectives of European American community leaders and compared those to the views of diverse community leaders.Item Understanding the Processes and the Consequences of Immigration(2014-05) Causadias, JoseIn this dissertation, I examine the phenomenon of immigration and how intercultural contact affects both immigrants and natives through acculturation and enculturation processes. I center on three main sources of individual differences in the outcomes of acculturation and enculturation: a) ethnicity, b) genetic plasticity, and c) immigrant generation. To examine these three sources, I employed data from a sample of Asian (n = 1584) and Latino (n = 3525) adolescents from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, who were assessed in four waves from ages 12-16 to ages 24-32. I found some group differences between Asians and Latinos, evidence of Gene-Culture correlations, and partial support for generational differences. These findings are discussed using a Cultural Development and Psychopathology framework (Causadias, 2013).