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9 - Biculturalism and Personality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2021

François Grosjean
François Grosjean
Affiliation:
Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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Post 9.4 concerns a dimension of becoming bicultural, that of discovering hidden aspects of the host culture that you have to be introduced to. In it, I relate how my family and I discovered Thanksgiving by first being invited to the celebration by an American family. Then, over the years, we made it into a family event.

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Life as a Bilingual
Knowing and Using Two or More Languages
 , pp. 189 - 210
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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