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noun the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture
noun all the knowledge and values shared by a society
noun the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure
originFirst attested in 1880; ad- (“toward”) + culture + -ation (“a process”); equivalent to acculturate + -ion
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