What is acculturation?
Acculturation is change in knowledge and practices during sustained contact between cultural groups.
Origins, forms and everyday life
Migration, trade, education and digital contact create encounters. Language use, food, music and daily practices may influence one another. Change is not one-way or equally paced, and power relations shape outcomes.
Meaning, change and safeguarding
Adaptation does not require abandoning one’s past. Researchers should hear people’s accounts, avoid assuming identical outcomes across generations and distinguish acculturation from debates about appropriation.
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