acculturation
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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 ● Nov. 21, 2025
It’s something I learned as part of my acculturation as a New Orleanian.
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2025
"That analysis clustered measures of stress and depression and separately pulled out discrimination and acculturation measures as their own distinct variables," said Scheinost.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2023
Another is acculturation, which Katz defined as “a process where you keep part of your culture” as you take in a new one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2023
But the process of acculturation was accelerating as settlers began to move onto the reservation.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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Human Geography - High School
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