acculturation

Example Sentences

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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.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“Todd supports legal immigration and acculturation,” he said, noting that Mr. Massie “is willing to say anything against those with a different viewpoint, regardless of facts.”

From New York Times

Castillo writes that his father perceived his wife as disloyal and grew irritated by their children’s inevitable acculturation, becoming physically abusive.

From Los Angeles Times

One solution could be for women to pump up their work, bucking the years of acculturation and socialization that encouraged them to be collaborative and self-effacing.

From Washington Post

His pride and acculturation prodded him to deny the severity of his illness, but for me to succeed in keeping him from going to trial, he had to expose his fragility to public scrutiny.

From Salon