Culture can be transmitted from one generation to another. During the process of cultural transmission, learning a culture by a new generation is called enculturation.
On the other hand, adopting foreign culture or other cultural norms and values is known as acculturation. In this new technological era people can interact with other people living thousands mile away from them. Due to social interaction through technology and with mass media people learn new values.
And if people adopt those learned values of other culture and modify their own culture, it will come under the category of acculturation. Mostly, group of people acculturate because they are influenced by the dominant culture in a given society. I am Sandesh Adhikari, a dreamer, thinker, researcher and an activist.
Acculturation for longer period of time leads to assimilation. Assimilation is when one completely gives up own culture and follows the new one. Acculturation is not the first but second or third familiarization to various cultures. For example, Americans learn to eat sushi. Acculturation: Acculturation is the transfer of values and customs from one group to another.
Assimilation: Assimilation is the cultural absorption of a minority group into the main cultural body. Acculturation: In acculturation, people retain their original cultural features while adapting to the new culture. Assimilation: In assimilation, people adopt the new culture and lose their original features.
Acculturation: Acculturation is a two way process. Assimilation: Only the minority group gets absorbed into the majority group. Choate sometimes credited as J. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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