acculturation
Example Sentences
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Without discounting the harshness of that imposed acculturation, he thanked what it gained him rather than resenting the means.
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.
From Seattle Times
To look for these unique effects, the researchers compared the mothers' discrimination and acculturation stress to the strength of their infants' brain circuits, as measured with MRI scans.
From Science Daily
In recent years, studies have also revealed that discrimination and acculturation -- or the changes that occur due to migration and the subsequent balancing of multiple, different cultures -- can affect the adult brain.
From Science Daily
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