acculturate
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The duty of new migrants is to integrate, acculturate and adhere to Australian values of democracy, tolerance and fairness.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2018
The repercussions of such a holding would go beyond access to free public education—itself a right of inestimable importance in helping to acculturate and open opportunities for so many undocumented children.
From Slate ● Jul. 5, 2018
Within the walls of our middle school, these students found safety and an environment where they could process their trials, learn English and begin to acculturate to life in the United States.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2018
“The stories of how everyday Latinos engaged with baseball to acculturate, socialize and organize within their communities are fascinating,” Díaz said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2016
He was trying to acculturate himself to a world that corrupted healthy human development in every way.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
So Chahal wasn’t acculturated into the party the way many others have been.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
The Christians of the Middle East had also been acculturated by centuries of living under Muslim rule, which meant the Christianity of the east looked very different from that practiced in Europe.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
But most Chinese Americans ultimately became fully acculturated, she said, although she saw limits to that process.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2023
We had been trained in it, bathed in it, acculturated to hate ourselves.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2021
As a child grows, he or she becomes acculturated to all of the sounds in their environment.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
It was difficult acculturating to life in the United States after immigrating from the Philippines when she was 4.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
The following year, Lollapalooza filled fields nationwide not just with amazing bands, but stalls selling hemp products and Greenpeace donation booths, acculturating a generation to the idea of voting their ethics with their wallets.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2013
“Utica is a model for a small community in terms of integrating and acculturating emerging populations.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2010
