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This chapter examines the experiences, attitudes, and behaviors of adolescents from immigrant families in diverse societies as they move toward adulthood in the context of two cultural frameworks. It presents conceptual and empirical background on the acculturation experience, focusing on what we term intercultural variables, specifically, acculturation attitudes, cultural identities, language proficiency and usage, peer contacts, family relationship values, and perceived discrimination. The term acculturation attitudes refers to the ways people prefer to live in intercultural contact situations. Cultural identity is a broad term used here to encompass both ethnic and national identities and their interplay. Ethnic identity has been assessed in terms of the degree to which one has a sense of belonging and attachment to one's group. Learning the language of the country of settlement, or national language, is one of the major …