acculturedadj.
/əˈkʌltʃəd/, U.S. /əˈkəltʃərd/ Originally U.S.
Of a person or group: adapted to a different culture, subjected to acculturation; = acculturated adj. 2.
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1898 Amer. Archaeologist 2 107 The people now living there, who in the course of many generations have become more or less accultured by contact with civilization and modified by tribal intermixtures.
1938 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 44 364 The way of life of these people..is—as expressed in the saying of a recently accultured Anglo-Saxon member—‘easy to catch, and once caught, who in the hell wants to change?’
1960 S. Hamady Temperament & Char. Arabs ii. 69 In regard to clothes, speech, and manners, the accultured Arab behaves in an ultra-westernized fashion, yet he looks to his traditions as a source of attitudes and as criteria of good behavior.
2010 R. McK. Irwin in I. Stavans Border Culture i. 74 Much later,..there occurs a scene in which the Seris, among them the already accultured protagonist, visit Guaymas.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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