acculturated

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The problem with Babar, as Gopnik explains, is the following: "Babar, such interpreters have insisted, is an allegory of French colonization, as seen by the complacent colonizers: the naked African natives, represented by the" good "elephants, are brought to the imperial capital, acculturated, and then sent back to their homeland on a civilizing mission."

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  • Now you have networks targeting the acculturated, bilingual market; operators have better bandwidth and offering VOD. —  Multichannel News: Breaking News
  • One solution to engaging less-acculturated Hispanics -- and generating organic word of mouth among them -- ...
  • But the privy was (and is) a good sanitary technology, and we acculturated to it. —  American Scientist Online
  • Self interest is not greed, and, unfortunately, much of the world has been acculturated to believe that it is. —  BusinessWeek.com --
  • They may have been acculturated but not assimilated. —  Kottu
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