Hatians

Sometimes perhaps of sheer size differences between the immigrant and indigenous populations, the opposite happens- immigrants absorb the dominant culture around them.
             The material culture- such things as jewelry, art, hairstyles clothing and many others; provided a sharp contrast to what people used to seeing. On the other hand, nonmaterial culture- that is a group's ways of thinking (beliefs, values and others) and doing (common patterns of behavior, gestures and other forms of interaction). Yet culture's significance is profound; it touches almost every aspect of who and what we are. Culture becomes the lens through which we perceive and evaluate what is going on around us. .
             To learn a culture is to learn people's values, their ideas of what is desirable in life. When we uncover people's values, we learn a great deal about them. Values are the standards by which people define good and bad, beautiful and ugly. Values underlie our preferences, guide our choices and indicate what we hold worthwhile in life. Every group develops expectations concerning the right way to reflect its values. The term norms are used to describe those expectations or rules of behavior, that develop out of a group's values. The term sanction is use to refer to positive or negative reactions to the ways in which people follow norm's. A positive sanction expresses approval for following a norm; it can be material such as reward, a prize, a trophy, hug and others. While a negative sanction reflects disapproval for breaking a norm, it can also be a material but in a bad way for example: being given a fine in court, harsh words and gestures. .
             Ethnocentrism:.
             An important consequence of culture within us is ethnocentrism, a tendency to use our own group's ways of doing things as the yardstick for judging others. All of us learn that the ways of our own group are good, right, proper and even superior to other ways of life.