acculturate

Example Sentences

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In the United States we are acculturated to the idea that the country goes to war and the people we kill and maim and terrorize don't matter.

From Salon

We had been trained in it, bathed in it, acculturated to hate ourselves.

From Seattle Times

So they adopted an attitude of "'we're not gonna wait to be acculturated into this political machine, because it's totally broken.'"

From Salon

What the judges have in common, Geyh said, is education and experience that have “acculturated them to take the law seriously.”

From Washington Post

To me that group includes Americanized, or acculturated first and second-generation children of immigrants — the people most identified as her core audience today.

From Los Angeles Times