English to Chichewa Meaning of acculturation - acculturation

Acculturation :

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Definitions of acculturation in English

Noun(1) the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture(2) all the knowledge and values shared by a society(3) the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure

Examples of acculturation in English

(1) This path to Spanish was an important part of the participants' identity as they shaped their worldview based on this sense of struggle to maintain an identity as a Spanish speaker while trying to acculturate to U. S. culture.(2) As families acculturate and assimilate they tend to form nuclear families with, occasionally, the addition of an elderly grandparent, and an unmarried adult child.(3) It is not surprising that Latino children have one of the highest risks for addiction because they subscribe to these dominant values and acculturate faster than their parents do.(4) Therefore, they usually acculturate and assimilate rather rapidly.(5) To bring schools like these to life, education leaders and entrepreneurs need to raise the funds, hire and develop the key staff, and work with the staff to acculturate students to the new environments and new approaches to learning.(6) Armenians quickly acculturate to their society, learning the language, attending school, and adapting to economic and political life.(7) As we are educated and acculturated into the medical profession, we spend a substantial amount of time with others who have similar interests, educational level, and specialized language.(8) The problem of course with teachers trained overseas is that they are not sufficiently acculturated in terms of education in New Zealand.(9) Our interpretation of the Mississippian emergence is acculturative in nature rather than adaptive (Pauketat, this issue), and it deemphasizes the importance of technology and trade as causal factors.(10) Indeed, previous studies have shown the negative relationship between acculturative stress and self-esteem among Hispanic youth.(11) They have resisted acculturation by constructing social fences around their community.(12) Immigration and acculturative stresses also may have a combined effect, placing them at greater risk for psychological distress (Harris, in press).(13) In the eighteenth century the Protestant Irish relatively easily became acculturated and socially accepted.(14) The questions were primarily based on the research on cultural adjustment and acculturation .(15) As the immigrants became acculturated into the American society, these beliefs and superstitions were forgotten.(16) As such, the local social groups were acculturated , and became bilingual.

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