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11 From Melting Pot to Simmering StewAcculturation, enculturation , assimilation , and biculturalism in American Racial DynamicsOn January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was sworn in as the forty-fourth president of the United States. Although he was heralded as the first African American to serve in the highest and most powerful position in the nation (and perhaps in the world), President Obama s cultural heritage was more subtle and complex. He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to an American mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, whose family (in Wichita, Kan-sas) was primarily of English descent, and Barack Obama Sr., a Luo from Nyang oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya. His father and mother mar-ried in 1961 and divorced in 1964, after which his father returned to Kenya. After her divorce, Dunham married Indonesian student Lolo Soetoro. In 1967 they moved the family to Indonesia, where Barack attended schools in Jakarta from ages six to ten.

1 1 From Melting Pot to Simmering Stew Acculturation, Enculturation, Assimilation, and Biculturalism in American Racial Dynamics On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was sworn in as the forty-

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