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What's the difference bewteen acculturate and enculturate?
What's the difference bewteen acculturate and enculturate?
acculturation / enculturation
Please also give some examples how to use these words. thanks.
26 Thg 08 2012 16:39
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Enculturate = to learn one's own culture, a process that is influenced strongly by home and family.
Example: Parents have a strong influence in enculturating their children.
Acculturate= to learn aspects of a culture other than one's own - particularly those aspects which will enable the individual to survive in that culture.
Example: If you moved to another country, you would need a year to acculturate in that society.
26 tháng 8 năm 2012
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Honestly, I had never seen these words before! But I looked them up in the dictionary, and this is the difference:
"Enculturation" is the process of learning your own group's culture, and "enculturate" is a transitive verb. So, when an American mother teaches her child to use a fork, she is enculturating him.
"Acculturation" is the process of taking on ANOTHER group's culture. "Acculturate" can be either transitive or intransitive. Used transitively: When an American moves to China, she might try to acculturate her child by teaching him to use chopsticks. Used intransitively: The child might naturally begin to acculturate by copying his Chinese friends.
Again, this is the first time I've seen these words. So if another native speaker sees any mistake, please correct me!
26 tháng 8 năm 2012
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