Acculturation

Since then, Kabylia has been obstinately confronting the process of Arabization and acculturation that is undermining its language and identity.

The center has had ten years of experience dealing with the mental health and acculturation issues of vulnerable immigrants and refugees. The director of the center, clinical psychologist Dennis Hunt, says the first step is to overcome the stigma attached to mental problems in many cultures.

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

The cultural complex shows such power of survival mainly because its practitioners know how to adapt to modernization, including Western medicine, just as their ancestors knew how to adapt their careers and art to acculturation processes during the Conquest and subsequent eras.