acculturation

CEFRC2

/əˌkʌl.t͡ʃəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

noun

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In plain English

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noun
The process of learning and adopting another culture.
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noun
Extra detail
A process by which the culture of a society changes on contact with a different one.

Examples

Studying abroad facilitates the process of acculturation for many international students.
The team studied acculturation in different cultures.

At a glance

Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

Deep Dive

Extra meaning

A process by which a person acquires the culture of the society that they inhabit, starting at birth.

In context

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

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It would be difficult to designate the Ghost Dance of the Indians of North America, for instance, as anything but a phenomenon of acculturation; […].
1958, Melville J. Herskovits, Acculturation, Peter Smith, page 12
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.
1979, Johannes Wilbert, editor, Enculturation in Latin America, University of California, page 18

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