Usually means: Acquisition of one's culture norms.
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▸ noun:  The process by which a person adopts the behaviour patterns of the culture in which they are immersed.

Similar:
culturization, inculturation, interculturation, acculturation, culturalization, biculturation, acculturalization, assimilation, transculturation, transculturisation, more...

Opposite:
deculturation, uncultured, deprivation

Types:
socialization, acculturation, assimilation, integration, more...

Adjectives:
own, mathematical, musical, early, disciplinary, political, human, such, social, civil, tacit

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Similar:
culturization, inculturation, interculturation, acculturation, culturalization, biculturation, acculturalization, assimilation, transculturation, transculturisation, more...

Opposite:
deculturation, uncultured, deprivation

Types:
socialization, acculturation, assimilation, integration, more...

Adjectives:
own, mathematical, musical, early, disciplinary, political, human, such, social, civil, tacit



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