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acculturation

noun as in adjustment to culture

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They sought to accelerate the acculturation and assimilation of the many immigrants into one people, which, as the Massachusetts political and literary figure Fisher Ames pointed out, meant, “to use the modern jargon, nationalized.”

Since then, the attorneys attempted to show, tribes had undergone an “acculturation” that meant that the importance of salmon to modern Northwest Indians had greatly diminished.

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"This naturally led to discussions about the impact of other stressors, like discrimination and acculturation, on the infant brain."

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The takeaway, said Scheinost, is that while discrimination and acculturation affect the brain in ways other types of stress do, there is something unique and important about these particular experiences that should be better understood.

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Another is acculturation, which Katz defined as “a process where you keep part of your culture” as you take in a new one.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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