acculturationn.
/əˌkʌltʃᵿˈreɪʃn/, U.S. /əˌkəltʃəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/ Originally U.S.
Adoption of or adaptation to a different culture, esp. that of a colonizing, conquering, or majority group; an instance of this. Also with to, into. Cf. culturalization n. 2.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [noun] > process > types of
cantonizing1611
diffusion1871
social differentiation1872
acculturation1880
feminization1901
mobilization1911
acculturalization1929
mimesis1934
schismogenesis1935
stimulus diffusion1940
transculturation1941
nativism1943
massification1946
villagization1954
1880 J. W. Powell Introd. Study Indian Langs. (ed. 2) 46 The force of acculturation under the overwhelming presence of millions of civilized people has wrought great changes.
1888 Pop. Sci. Monthly Mar. 635 We..consider it a mistake to believe that an acculturation to our civilized ways is a thorough civilization.
1938 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 23 94 The overwhelming importance of the institution of slavery as the predeterminating factor in the influence and acculturation of the Negro.
1981 B. J. Kachru in C. A. Ferguson & S. B. Heath Lang. in USA i. ii. 28 It is a fascinating study in language imposition and language acculturation.
2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Sept. 10/4 [His] almost complete acculturation into Rajasthani culture had led..Sir David Ochterlony, to complain that Todd was ‘too much of a Rajpoot himself to deal with Rajpoot’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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