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acculturation

noun as in adjustment to culture

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Horsemeat, I realized at the Rue Poncelet counter, is a last redoubt against the onslaught of global acculturation.

His family is a case study in the acculturation process he now trumpets.

Acculturation by borrowing has played an important rle in the development of North American Indian ideas and institutions.

There are numerous other illustrations of this so-called "piratical acculturation" among the observations of ethnologists.

It took a lot of taming, or acculturation, for sex to become an intimate affair.

The ethnologists have investigated the process among primitive peoples under the title acculturation.

Among historical peoples, on the other hand, acculturation has been called assimilation.

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to acculturation, such as: acclimatization, assimilation, nationalization, naturalization, and culture shock.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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