acculturate
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“We are trying to acculturate into American society, and WeChat provides this bridge for us to empower one another,” Ms. Lu said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2020
Today we have flipped the bit: We treat machines just as mechanically as we ever did, but we are increasingly reliant on them to babysit, educate, and acculturate our children.
From Slate ● Dec. 24, 2019
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
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
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
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
Of course, we are acculturated to view such nakedly unsentimental visions of humanity as coldly “rational,” a tendency Kirsch indulges despite evidence that transhumanism is scientifically dubious.
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2023
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
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