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
  • 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
  • This acculturation process is a common strategy of schools’ foundation offices.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 16 Aug. 2019
  • End of carousel After more than a century, is there anything new to say about the story of immigration and one family’s acculturation?
    — Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • Another element to keep in mind is the varying levels of acculturation within Hispanic communities.
    — Isabel Rafferty, Forbes, 28 May 2021
  • This juxtaposition reflects the jarring reality of refugee life; grieving becomes secondary, dependent on one’s survival and acculturation.
    — Terry Nguyen, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • Other tribes—typically large ones with substantial diasporas—have also been cleaning their enrollment records, less to hoard money than to mitigate tribal anxieties about acculturation.
    — David Treuer, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Factors like generational perspective, region of origin, acculturation level and shifting identity expressions all share what resonates.
    — Tony Gonzalez, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Even if most commercial passengers are aware, on an intellectual level, that the skilled but underutilized pilots in the cockpit are mostly being paid to drink coffee, the idea of fully autonomous flight will require some acculturation.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • More acculturation also means such second-generation Asian Americans place a greater emphasis on the individual than on the collective, Ng said.
    — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 15 June 2024
  • 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
  • Much of this occurred via assimilation and acculturation of non-Russian Uralic and Altaic populations.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2012
  • Far from being an act of resistance, could de-skilling actually grease the wheels of avant-garde acculturation, facilitating the movement of capital into every last nook and cranny of cultural production, even the most seemingly resistant?
    — Gordon Hughes, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Liberal means generous, broad-minded, tolerant, worldly, seeking acculturation and education, and using government to aid collective human flourishing.
    — Harper’s Magazine, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
  • 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
  • Adept at separating the unseen from the seen, Lemann here chronicles his family’s accumulation of wealth, whatever the moral costs or compromises, and their subsequent acculturation and partial deracination.
    — Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • How Culture Plays a Role In immigrant families—especially in the Asian American community—acculturation levels can influence parenting styles.
    — Lynda Lin Grigsby, Parents, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Archaeologists and anthropologists have imposed disease, demographic collapse and acculturation as explanations of discontinuity and cultural extinction.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2010

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