acculturate

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But, he warns, “those protective mechanisms weaken as families acculturate,” a finding that helps explain why the “paradox” fades in later U.S.-born generations of Latino families.

From The Wall Street Journal

Although she was buoyed to leave a union filled with anger and loneliness, she now entered single parenthood, and discovered that no arrangement of life contains the perfection she’d long been acculturated to expect.

From Los Angeles Times

This included a focus on whether they had become “Americanized” or “acculturated” with the result that the tribes’ main interest in establishing treaty rights was economic.

From Seattle Times

Some Japanese women are also acculturated to cover their mouths when eating or laughing.

From New York Times

But most Chinese Americans ultimately became fully acculturated, she said, although she saw limits to that process.

From New York Times