cultural adaptation
Adjusting to customs
Cultural adaptation is the process of adjusting to a new cultural environment—learning its customs, values, and social norms.
Immigrants undergo cultural adaptation when settling in a new country: The cultural adaptation was harder for her parents than for her.
The term also describes how practices or products are modified to suit different cultural contexts: The film required significant cultural adaptation for Asian markets.
- biculturalismHaving two cultural identities
- mixed heritageDiverse ancestral origins
- acculturationAdopting another group's customs
- hybridityMixed-origin quality
- code-switchingAlternating between linguistic varieties
double life · cross-cultural communication · lost in translation · creolization · assimilation · cross-cultural dialogue · localization · fitting in · mother tongue · cultural sensitivity · immigrant · bilingualism · exile · outsider · identity · homesickness · diaspora · old country
- cultural diversitycultural diversity, ethnic enclave, ethnic neighborhoods, Chinatown, Little Italy
- global experiencesstudy abroad, exchange student, cultural immersion, travel abroad, volunteer abroad
- translationtranslator, literal translation, literary translation, free translation, French translation
- anthropologyanthropology, fieldwork, ethnography, social anthropology, cultural anthropology
- cross-culturalcultural clashes, cross-cultural romance, cultural hybridity, hybrid identity, dual identity
- cultural exchangecultural exchange, cross-cultural, student exchange, intercultural, exchange program
cultural adaptationcultural assimilation
Adopting another group's norms
cultural preservation · cultural resistance · cultural isolation · ethnocentrism · cultural imperialism
cultural adaptationcultural imperialism
Dominant society imposing its ways
forced assimilation · cultural hegemony · cultural erasure · ethnocide