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bicultural

English edit

WOTD – 7 February 2023

Etymology edit

PIE word
*dwóh₁

The adjective is derived from bi- (prefix meaning ‘two’) +‎ cultural.[1]

The noun is derived from the adjective.

Pronunciation edit

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /baɪˈkʌlt͡ʃ(ʊ)əɹəl/, /baɪˈkʌlt͡ʃɹ(ə)l/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (General American) IPA(key): /baɪˈkəlt͡ʃ(ə)ɹəl/
  • Hyphenation: bi‧cul‧tur‧al

Adjective edit

bicultural (comparative more bicultural, superlative most bicultural)

  1. Adapted to two separate cultures.
    • 2003, Yasuko Kanno, “Preface”, in Negotiating Bilingual and Bicultural Identities: Japanese Returnees betwixt Two Worlds, Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, published 2009, →DOI, →ISBN:
      [W]ithout English, I would not be how I am: a bilingual and bicultural person at home in both English and Japanese.
    • 2006, Antonia Darder, “Foreword”, in Edward M. Olivos, The Power of Parents: A Critical Perspective of Bicultural Parent Involvement in Public Schools (Counterpoints; 290), New York, N.Y., Washington, D.C.: Peter Lang, →ISBN, →ISSN, page xi:
      Also as unfortunate are the overt and covert deficit notions held by teachers and administrators towards bicultural students; deficit notions, extended, by assocation, to bicultural parents. These misguided notions are propagated, for the most part, devoid of any systematic analysis that directly implicates the oppressive social, economic, political, cultural and linguistic forces that structurally shape and perpetuate the exclusion, exploitation, and domination of bicultural communities.

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Noun edit

bicultural (plural biculturals)

  1. A person belonging to two cultures.
    • 2013 October, Nirmalya Kumar, Jan-Benedict Steenkamp, “Diaspora Marketing”, in Harvard Business Review‎[1], Brighton: Harvard Business Publishing, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2022-12-13:
      Compared with ethnic affirmers, biculturals are better educated; have higher incomes, socioeconomic status, and self-esteem; and are more involved in local social networks.
    • 2015 August 29, Miriam A. Knauss, Kristina Günther, Sophie Belardi, Pauline Morley, Ulrike von Lersner, “The Impact of Perceived Ethnic Discrimination on Mental Health Depends on Transcultural Identity: Evidence for a Moderator Effect”, in BMC Psychology, volume 3, number 1, London: BioMed Central, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, article no. 30, page 3, column 1:
      Persons without a migratory background may also have a transcultural identity—and not everybody who is confronted with at least two cultures is automatically supposed to have a transcultural identity […]. Thus, biculturals do not necessarily have a transcultural identity.
    • 2022 December 12, Maïthé Chini, “Belgium in Brief: A reflection of raw Moroccan reality”, in The Brussels Times‎[2], Brussels: BXL Connect, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2022-12-21:
      With every win, coach Regragui dreams louder and louder of actually becoming World Champion, and urges all Moroccans, biculturals and binationals across the world to openly do the same.

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References edit

  1. ^ “bicultural, adj.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2018; “bicultural, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /bikultuˈɾal/ [bi.kul̪.t̪uˈɾal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: bi‧cul‧tu‧ral

Adjective edit

bicultural m or f (masculine and feminine plural biculturales)

  1. bicultural

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