Associations to the word «Acculturation»

Wiktionary

ACCULTURATION, noun. A process by which the culture of an isolated society changes on contact with a different one.
ACCULTURATION, noun. A process by which a person acquires the culture of the society that he/she inhabits, starting at birth.

Dictionary definition

ACCULTURATION, noun. The adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture; "the socialization of children to the norms of their culture".
ACCULTURATION, noun. All the knowledge and values shared by a society.
ACCULTURATION, noun. The process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.

Wise words

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.