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Culture shock on a payment plan: you absorb a new one without ever fully leaving the old.
means The process of taking on the beliefs, customs, or behaviors of a different culture, usually through sustained contact with it.
from Built in English from the Latin prefix 'ad-' (toward) plus 'cultura' (cultivation, growing), the same root that gives us 'culture.' It emerged in the 1800s among anthropologists and sociologists studying what happens when groups with different ways of life come into prolonged contact — the word itself mimicking the thing it describes: one term grafted onto another, cultures growing into each other.
- not assimilation
- you keep your own culture, just add another layer
- coined
- 1880s anthropology, originally about colonized peoples
- two-way street
- technically changes both cultures, rarely changes them equally
- measurable
- psychologists actually have scales to score how acculturated you are