culturalization

Adopting local customs

Culturalization is the process of adapting something to fit a particular culture's values, expectations, or sensibilities.

In business and media, it goes beyond translation to modify content for local audiences: The game's culturalization involved changing religious symbols for certain markets.

The term also describes how individuals or groups become integrated into a cultural system through exposure and socialization.

localization

adaptation

Fitting to new conditions

translation · localization

integration

assimilation

Absorbing into a whole

biculturalism · code-switching · belonging · community · second-generation · traditions · values · norms

diversity

multiculturalism

Coexistence of diverse traditions

intercultural · multilingualism · cosmopolitanism · demographics · coexistence · mosaic · tolerance · belonging

sensitivity

awareness

State of perceiving reality

consideration · diplomacy · microaggressions · stereotypes · appropriation · etiquette · taboos · inclusivity · training · protocols

globalization

homogenization

Making things the same

Opposites
explanatory framework

culturalizationnaturalization

Legal path to belonging

genetic determinism · essentialism · nativism · biological inheritance · medicalization

process direction

culturalizationcultural erasure

Destroying group identity markers

assimilation · deracination · denationalization · homogenization

universalism vs. particularism

culturalizationuniversalization

Making something apply everywhere

naturalization · generalization · standardization · normalization · abstraction

Family

culture, cultured, cultural, agriculture, cultures, multicultural, culturally, subculture, acculturation

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