Abstract
This article examines the effects of acculturation on quality of life on Japanese-Americans and Indo-Americans in California. The data are obtained from our ongoing multinational study on effects of acculturation on quality of life among selected Asian immigrants in Los Angeles (U.S.), Sao Paulo (Brazil), and Tokyo (Japan). Our multinational project explores the effects of acculturation and adaptation on quality of life and health of (1) selected Asian immigrant groups in the same host environment (e.g., Indian, Japanese, and Korean immigrants in California; and Japanese and Korean immigrants in Brazil and in Japan); and (2) a specific Asian immigrant group in different host environments (e.g., Japanese in California and Brazil; and Koreans in California, Tokyo and Sao Paulo). This article focuses on the importance of an immigrant group’s “beliefs, values, knowledge, attitudes, and practices”BVKAP. While various cultural groups share certain attributes, they also vary significantly in terms of their own culturally conditioned beliefs, values, knowledge, attitude, and practices, which, in turn, affect health status and quality of life of these groups. Available literature documents that on selected indicators of health status and quality of life, populations vary signifi
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