Tearing down the 'Wall in the head'? Culture contact between Germans

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 163-179

  Fischer, Ronald ^a   Maes, Jürgen ^b   Schmitt, Manfred ^c  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Culture contact; Existential guilt; German unification; Intergroup relations; Relative deprivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846128105     PISSN: 01471767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2006.05.004     Document Type: Article

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