The word 'biculturalism' is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to the coexistence and equal recognition of two different cultures within a society or individual. Example: In Canada, there is a strong emphasis on promoting biculturalism through government policies and programs, recognizing both English and French as official languages.
Biculturalism has also long been promoted to incorporate the nation's Maori heritage.
This is because there is an important distinction between bilingualism and biculturalism.
This is how my biculturalism manifests in sports: I sit down to watch Peru play against Brazil, believing sincerely and against all reason that we will win.
In "City on the Edge," published in 1993, the social scientists Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick, of Princeton University and Florida International University, respectively, noted that modern Miami had two parallel social systems instead of one mainstream population, and they described the process by which "biculturalism has emerged as an alternative...to full assimilation into American culture".
This is how my biculturalism manifests in sports: I sit down to watch Peru play against Brazil, believing against all reason that we will win.
Raised by her French mother — a secondary school science teacher — in a housing project in suburban Paris, with vacations in the countryside where her maternal grandparents were farmers, NDiaye describes herself as a purely French product, with no claim to biculturalism but her surname and the color of her skin.
"There is a decided positive in encouraging biculturalism and people working and living together instead of inciting tension.
Bilingualism and biculturalism are central to "Dancing Home," by Alma Flor Ada and Gabriel M. Zubizarreta, which is being published in both English and Spanish, and tells the story of a fifth grader, Margie, Texas-born, California-reared andetermineded to be American at any cost.
Despite New Zealand's comparative biculturalism in Auckland and the capital, Wellington – whose national museum, Te Papa, boasts impressive celebrations of aboriginal culture – Maori access to traditional lands remains heavily contested and qualified, especially in cities.
Biculturalism, water, death, memory, the female predicament, conscience, the nature of time and tide?
Historically, Canadian multicultural policy developed as a way not of welcoming immigrants but of mitigating the impact of biculturalism – the long-standing tensions between French-speaking Quebec and the rest of English-speaking Canada that have provoked violence and come close to tearing the nation apart.
