Abstract
The aim of this study was to analyze how Chinese living in Japan select acculturation strategies and the relationship between their choices and the their attitudes towards the two cultures. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine Chinese people who graduated from Japanese universities and were working in Japan as highly skilled professionals. After asking participants to select from a list of four categories that with which they most closely identified, three participants selected the “Chinese,” “integrationist” and “superordinate identity” respectively, while none selected “Japanese.” No strong consistency was found between the ways in which the participants dealt with the two cultures and the category they chose to describe themselves. The superordinate identity was confirmed in these participants as a variation of integrationist.
