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acculturation Chiefly U.S.|əkʌltjʊəˈreɪʃən|
[f. ac- prefix + culture n. + -ation.]
The adoption and assimilation of an alien culture. Also transf. So aˈccultural a., involving or produced by acculturation; aˈcculturative a., involving or producing acculturation; aˈcculture, cultural elements acquired by acculturation; aˈcculturate, aˈcculturize vbs. trans. and intr., to cause to change or to become changed through acculturation.
1880J. W. Powell Study Ind. Lang. (ed. 2) 46 The force of acculturation under the overwhelming presence of millions has wrought great changes. 1895Smithsonian Rep. 44 The arts and industries of the partially acculturized Papago Indians. 1900Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol. 1897–8 i. p. xxi, When an invention is accepted and used by others it is accultural. 1904G. S. Hall Adolescence II. 726 There is little acculture [among American Indians]. 1934Webster, Acculturate, v. 1936Amer. Anthropologist XXXVIII. 149 Acculturation comprehends those phenomena which result when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuous first-hand contact, with subsequent changes in the original culture patterns of either or both groups. Note: Under this definition, acculturation is to be distinguished from culture-change, of which it is but one aspect, and assimilation, which is at times a phase of acculturation. 1950F. Eggan Soc. Org. W. Pueblos v. 248 Change from a lineage to a ‘bilateral’ system, under acculturative influences. 1950Mind LIX. 195 A primitive community that is in the process of being acculturated to the West. 1951R. Firth Elem. Soc. Org. iii. 81 Terms such as..‘acculturation’ were introduced to express the way in which new patterns of behaviour or types of relationship were acquired and incorporated into a primitive system. 1959V. Packard Status Seekers (1960) xvi. 232 They [sc. the private schools] acculturate ‘the members of the younger generation..into an upper-class style of life’. 1963Time & Tide Oct. 5/3 Many of the Indians have become a[c]culturised. |