Question

What is meant by acculturation? Is acculturation a smooth process? Discuss.

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

Acculturation refers to the cultural and psychological changes that result from contact with other cultures. This process can be direct, indirect, voluntary or involuntary. ... Successful adaptation in such instances leads to a smooth process of acculturation towards the group that is responsible for it.

Answer 2

Acculturation

Explanation:

• Acculturation is a cultural transmission process, where an individual or an individual group belonging to one culture adapts to values and practices followed by another culture; at the same time, retain their cultural values.
• This is expressed as both psychological and cultural changes in a person and acquired through both direct and indirect contact.
• A person can either voluntarily or involuntarily accept for acculturation

Is acculturation a smooth process?

• Acculturation is a process that requires re-learning of various norms, beliefs, values, customs etc of a new culture. This requires a lot of re-socialization to acquire knowledge about the new culture.  
• If this re-learning is easy for a person, then one can have a smooth transition of culture; whereas, in most of the cases the transition is not smooth. This is due to
• Difficulties experienced while transition leading to conflict and stress
• These changes are multi-directional and can be complex
• Acculturation changes are reflected as both subjective and objective changes which are obtained by following the acculturation strategies