Catholic Dictionary

Acculturation

The process by which adults acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, and behaviors that enable them to become functioning participants of a new host culture. Acculturation is for adults what enculturation is for children.  

 

 

Related topics   Inculturation ,   Cross- Culturalism ,   Culture  ,   Enculturation ,   Ethnocentrism , Monoculturalism ,   Global Culture

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