acculturated
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Although she was buoyed to leave a union filled with anger and loneliness, she now entered single parenthood, and discovered that no arrangement of life contains the perfection she’d long been acculturated to expect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
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
