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Acculturation

//əˌkʌl.t͡ʃəˈɹeɪ.ʃən// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A process by which the culture of a society changes on contact with a different one. countable, uncountable

    "It would be difficult to designate the Ghost Dance of the Indians of North America, for instance, as anything but a phenomenon of acculturation; […]."

  2. 2
    the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture wordnet
  3. 3
    A process by which a person acquires the culture of the society that they inhabit, starting at birth. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure wordnet
  5. 5
    all the knowledge and values shared by a society wordnet

Etymology

First attested in 1880; ad- (“toward”) + culture + -ation (“a process”); equivalent to acculturate + -ion

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