| 单词 | acculturation |
| 释义 | acculturation (once / 211060 pages) n Acculturation is what happens when you live with French people for a while and start going "ooh la la" and eating snails. It means adopting the ways of a culture that isn't yours. Acculturation is related to the word culture. Duh. Culture comes from a Latin word meaning, basically, farming. Now it refers to basically anything that people create and teach each other — singing, dancing, TV. Obviously people in different parts of the world have different cultures, and when they come together, the result is often acculturation. Picture a French guy drinking Coke and wearing a baseball cap and you get the idea. WORD FAMILYacculturation: acculturational+/acculturate: acculturated, acculturation, acculturative/counterculture: countercultures/cultural: culturally, multicultural, transcultural/culture: acculturate, counterculture, cultural, cultured, cultures, culturing, subculture/cultured: culturedly, uncultured/multicultural: multiculturalism/subculture: subcultures/uncultured: unculturedly USAGE EXAMPLESAcculturation may be the main reason moviegoers find the sharpness off-putting. New York Times(Nov 18, 2016) An emotionally negative response to racism, sexism and xenophobia may, like much else in human life, be rooted in pre-conscious bias and in childhood acculturation. New York Times(Oct 18, 2016) Acculturation is so powerful that it can boost birth rates as well as cut them. Economist(Apr 28, 2016) 1n the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture Syn|Hypo|Hyper enculturation, socialisation, socialization cultivation socialization through training and education to develop one's mind or manners breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringinghelping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community social control control exerted (actively or passively) by group action 2n the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure Syn|Hyper assimilation education the gradual process of acquiring knowledge 3n all the knowledge and values shared by a society Syn|Hypo|Hyper culture meme a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation) cognitive content, content, mental object the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned |
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