acculturation.

Cultural change arising through contact between groups or the adoption of practices from another cultural setting.

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Words that belong together

• process of acculturation
• acculturation through contact

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Acculturation through contact changed some daily practices while leaving others intact.

The process of acculturation involved both adaptation and selective resistance.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: social explanation, distributional analysis, population description, concept distinction. Disciplines: social science, economics, public policy. Commonness: uncommon.