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qual access to jobs, political authority and other important opportunities. In other words, they have full participation in all institutional areas of American society.

The majority of the participants had at least college education (77%) and a household income above $50,000 (66%). It is interesting to see that the Second generation had a higher income than both the First and the Third or beyond generation. 41% reported that they work in a professional field including attorneys, medical doctors, accountants, engineers, IT project managers, nurses, family therapists, pharmaceutical sales representatives, etc. 11% of the respondents were in an academic field. Moreover, we observed that 15% of the First generation and 11% of the Second generation had a Ph.D./M.D. degree while not a single Third or beyond generation respondent was found to hold a Ph.D./M.D. degree. Clearly, Greek America should encourage younger generations to achieve higher academic achievements and dedicate themselves to a more diverse professional field including research and teaching.

Intermarriage is an indicator of amalgamation (Waters and Jiménez, 2005). Much of the research has relied on intermarriage as an indicator of assimilation (e.g. Alba, 1981; Alba and Camlin, 1983; Castonguay, 1982; Cohen, 1977). Both interethnic and interfaith marriages were found to be a factor contributing to the process of assimilation. In our study, we not only estimated the intermarriage rate across generations, but we also studied the impact of intermarriage on attitudes and behaviors of preserving Hellenic core values as well as the attitudes towards interethnic and interfaith marriage. The findings are discussed later in further context.

Our study also tested acculturation theories. Berry proposed four modes of acculturation: 'assimilation', 'integration', 'separation' and 'marginalization'. ‘Assimilation’ refers to the acceptation of the majority's culture on the expanse of one's own original minority culture. ‘Separation’ refers to the opposite stance: loyalty toward one's original minority culture and the rejection of the majority's culture. ‘Integration’ refers to the adoption of both cultures with an attempt to integrate between them, while ‘marginalization’ refers to distancing from one's original heritage culture, but this time without assimilating to the majority's culture. This, results with the individual remaining with no clear cultural identification (Berry, 1997, 2001).

The contribution of the acculturation theory is that it empirically demonstrated the ability to predict desirable or undesirable adjustment outcomes among distinct immigrant groups and members of minority ethnic groups. More specifically, numerous studies found ‘integration’ to be the most successful adaptation strategy by balancing the host country's culture with the traditional values of one's own culture origin while marginalization struggled the most to adapt to the dominant society (Berry, 1974, 1980, 1984, 1997, 2003; Berry et al., 2006, Berry, 2010).

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