Some Thoughts On Acculturation

Authors

Otto G. Hoiberg

Keywords

acculturation, Danish emigrants, immigrants, culture, Danish American Heritage Society

Abstract

Three years ago an important work entitled Flight to America - The Social Background of 300,000 Danish Emigrants was published by Kristian Hvidt(1), Head Librarian of the Danish Parliamentary Library in Copenhagen. Dr. Hvidt's painstaking demographic study of 58 handwritten volumes of data ralating to America-bound Danish emigrants between 1868 and 1914, together with computer analysis, revealed a wealth of interesting information relating to the age, sex, family status, occupation, motivation and other characteristics of the people concerned.

Recommended Citation

Hoiberg, Otto G. (1978) "Some Thoughts On Acculturation," The Bridge: Vol. 1: No. 1, Article 8.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thebridge/vol1/iss1/8