acculturation

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  1. noun The modification of the culture of a group or individual as a result of contact with a different culture.
  2. noun The process by which the culture of a particular society is instilled in a human from infancy onward.

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  • Glithwah strove always to keep the clan's captors fixed upon rehabilitation, on reinforcing their wishful thinking that acculturation was progressing. —  Analog SFF, September 2006
  • Attitudes and behavior of online Hispanics and how usage varies by level of acculturation, income, and age
  • As someone interested in language acquisition and acculturation (Halverson hopes to go to grad school to study linguistics), being a part of a program teaching English language skills complements his academic interests. —  Northfield.org - Community news, citizen produced
  • It's about immigration and acculturation, capitalism and exploitation, hospitality and loneliness. —  Slate Magazine
  • It also does not intend to forget about the white people who not only respect and value all the things said in the paragraph above, but have learned to dance with, (not at), black people through acculturation (i.e. growing up with, not next to, black people), through learning about the history behind our vibration, and / or through somehow intrinsically picking up the rhythm. —  Serendip's Exchange -
 

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  1. Latin acfor ad- + cultura, culture, + -ation.
 

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/ækəltʃəˈreɪʃən/
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