Acculturation

Acculturation refers to the psychological, social, and cultural transformation that takes place through direct contact between two cultures, wherein one or both engage in adapting to dominant cultural influences without compromising their essential distinctiveness.^[1] It occurs when an individual acquires, adopts, or adjusts to a new cultural environment as a result of being placed into an another culture or when another culture is brought into contact.^[2] This balancing process can result in a mixed society with prevailing and blended features or with splintered cultural changes, depending on the sociopolitical atmosphere. Individuals from other cultures work toward fitting into a more prevalent culture by either fully adopting or selectively integrating aspects of the dominant culture, such as its cultural traits and social norms, while still holding onto their original cultural values and traditions.^[1] The impacts of acculturation are experienced differently at various levels by both the adoptees of the mainstream culture and the hosts of the source culture. Outcomes can include marginalization, respectful coexistence, destructive tensions, integration, and cultural evolution.^[3]

^ ^a ^b Phillip Kottak, Conrad (2007). Window on Humanity: A Concise Introduction to General Anthropology with Powerweb. McGraw-Hill Higher Education. p. 445. ISBN 978-0-07-325893-5. The exchange of cultural features that results when groups come into continuous firsthand contact; the original cultural patterns of either or both groups may be altered, but the groups remain distinct.
^ Redfield, Robert; Linton, Ralph; Herskovits, Melville J. (1936). "Memorandum for the Study of Acculturation". American Anthropologist. 38 (1): 149–152. ISSN 0002-7294.
^ Cole, Nicki Lisa; Cole, Ph D. Nicki Lisa; journalist, Ph D. is a freelance; California, has taught a range of sociology courses at the University of; Barbara, Santa; College, Pomona. "Understanding Acculturation". ThoughtCo. Retrieved 2018-12-09.

[:7-1] Phillip Kottak, Conrad (2007). Window on Humanity: A Concise Introduction to General Anthropology with Powerweb. McGraw-Hill Higher Education. p. 445. ISBN 978-0-07-325893-5. The exchange of cultural features that results when groups come into continuous firsthand contact; the original cultural patterns of either or both groups may be altered, but the groups remain distinct.

[2] Redfield, Robert; Linton, Ralph; Herskovits, Melville J. (1936). "Memorandum for the Study of Acculturation". American Anthropologist. 38 (1): 149–152. ISSN 0002-7294.

[3] Cole, Nicki Lisa; Cole, Ph D. Nicki Lisa; journalist, Ph D. is a freelance; California, has taught a range of sociology courses at the University of; Barbara, Santa; College, Pomona. "Understanding Acculturation". ThoughtCo. Retrieved 2018-12-09.

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