Cultural, language and identity shock in the emigrant generation : triadic reliance structure

The text deals with a triad of dependence between cultural, language and identity shock. It forms the attitudes of the emigrant generation (adults, who leave their homeland to another country). It may mean assimilation in the new society or isolation from it, thus remaining in one’s own ethnic setting. The first option risks the loss of Polishness, the second - an exaggeration of its glorification. The most appropriate is the third option - integration which leads to the creation of a "third value", being biculturalism and double identity. Language, most importantly in this triad cannot succumb to this dualism because there is no "third" language but a state of bilingualism, which rather depends on the separation of codes and not a mixture of them.