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
As part of the government's effort to acculturate her, she puts in a few unpaid hours at a perfume shop in the downtown mall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2015
Immigrants were encouraged to acculturate as quickly as they could—meaning that they must learn a new language, giving up traditions, customs, heritage, etc., in order to blend and assimilate into the general population.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
So Chahal wasn’t acculturated into the party the way many others have been.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
Some Japanese women are also acculturated to cover their mouths when eating or laughing.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2023
We had been trained in it, bathed in it, acculturated to hate ourselves.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2021
We already have a category of movies that we expect to artfully, if painfully edify—think of 12 Years a Slave, or Schindler’s List—but we’re not acculturated to it on television.
From Slate ● May 30, 2019
However, all such peoples either practice at least some food production or are the partly acculturated last remnants of the world’s former hunter-gatherer societies.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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
