acculturation

Example Sentences

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They sought to accelerate the acculturation and assimilation of the many immigrants into one people, which, as the Massachusetts political and literary figure Fisher Ames pointed out, meant, “to use the modern jargon, nationalized.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“What I think is, most women, by training and acculturation, have gotten farther by collaborating than competing.”

From New York Times

In the Soviet Union, Yiddish was repressed by “forced acculturation and assimilation,” according to YIVO, an organization focused on preserving East European Jewish culture founded in 1925 with support from Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud.

From Washington Post

Evacuees were supposed to be allies — those who assisted the American war effort and who usually had some English ability and acculturation with Americans.

From Washington Times

“And in life, linguistic acculturation, immigrant acculturation, and the inevitable passage of globalized internet slang all play a factor in the fine line between offense and pop culture.”

From Los Angeles Times