How to Use acculturation in a Sentence

acculturation

noun

• But a move to Texas cuts short this acculturation—at his new high school, the black kids mock his clothes.
  — Julian Lucas, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• That can mean playing down other parts of ourselves, whether by choice or by acculturation.
  — Inkoo Kang, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2020
• Still, there was an acculturation process — particularly for Mr. Feldman, who is not really the dance-like-no-one-is-watching type.
  — Joseph Bernstein, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• What this novel is about, even more than acculturation, is observing women.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2020
• Rather than this idea of somebody, through the lens of their own experience and acculturation, not understanding their behavior.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021
• The last extensive pagan regions of Europe, along the southeast shore of the Baltic, remained so into the 14th century, illustrating just how long the process of religious acculturation could take.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2013
• Over two decades of studies have shown that immigrants often learn English from watching TV, and that reduces some of the stress that comes with acculturation, or the process of assimilating into the dominant culture.
  — Amanda Jackson and Scottie Andrew, CNN, 9 Nov. 2020
• This acculturation process is a common strategy of schools’ foundation offices.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 16 Aug. 2019
• People see the same experience somewhat differently from the prism of their own lens and that lens is informed by their history, their acculturation, their cultural norms, their education, their values, their parents, their trauma.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2021
• While highly relevant to the discussion, this article seeks to stick tightly to acculturation within the context of businesses and organizations.
  — Brad Cousins, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
• The encroachment of cultivation on Yamino and similar communities has piled further pressure on the region’s Indigenous groups, who were already struggling with inequality, acculturation and the loss of languages.
  — Simeon Tegel, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2022
• Another element to keep in mind is the varying levels of acculturation within Hispanic communities.
  — Isabel Rafferty, Forbes, 28 May 2021
• Much of this occurred via assimilation and acculturation of non-Russian Uralic and Altaic populations.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2012
• The level of acculturation often depends on how far removed someone is from their family’s country of origin, so immigrants who have recently arrived from Venezuela will have a much lower level of acculturation than third-generation Cuban-Americans.
  — Isabel Rafferty, Forbes, 28 May 2021
• The Jewish camping movement is a hybrid outgrowth of a slew of Jewish cultural projects: urban social and moral reform, Zionist education, denominational training, and the general acculturation to American-style leisure.
  — Jamie Lauren Keiles, Vox, 5 Dec. 2018
• In order to be part of the political process, Ong pointed out that immigrants have to engage in multiple stages of political acculturation including naturalization, registration, and finally voting.
  — NBC News, 24 Sep. 2020
• Women of diverse backgrounds (n = 275) reported on craving frequency and triggers and completed validated measures of acculturation.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2017
• In addition to disparities among ethnic groups, improper aggregation also masks significant differences based on migrant status and acculturation level.
  — Claire Wang, NBC News, 7 June 2022
• Also in 2013, scholars found that acculturation is negatively associated with depression, anxiety, psychological distress, and sadness.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2022
• Archaeologists and anthropologists have imposed disease, demographic collapse and acculturation as explanations of discontinuity and cultural extinction.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2010

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024