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Difference Between Acculturation and Enculturation

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"d39b46b3f7ef22b4a3a221038394de7c" data-index&equals;"1" style&equals;"float&colon; left&semi; margin&colon; 10px 10px 10px 0&semi;">&NewLine;<script async src&equals;"&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- Sociology Learners 336 X 280 Post Top --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;inline-block&semi;width&colon;336px&semi;height&colon;280px" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-7649183549375766" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"1656902389"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine;&lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Enculturation refer to the process of learning our own &lpar;native&rpar; culture&comma; whereas&comma; acculturation is the process of learning and adopting host cultural norms&comma; values and beliefs&period; Learning native cultural norms and values of a particular society are essential for an individual&comma; to function in a society&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Enculturation is anthropological term used for socialization&comma; both terms refer to&comma; the process of learning through social interaction&period; However&comma; the term enculturation is only confined to culture&period; Whereas&comma; socialization refer to each and every social interaction of an individual with other people of a society&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Since conception&comma; baby starts interacting with his family members most of all with mother&period; Parents teach their children how to eat&comma; drink&comma; walk&comma; play&comma; and behave in different situations&period; However&comma; parents teach all those things according to their own culture&period; For instance&comma; Middle Eastern families eat food with their bare hands whereas&comma; American families use fork and knife to eat food&period; So&comma; children born and raised in Middle Eastern families are enculturate to eat food with bare hands&period; Whereas&comma; American children are enculturate to eat food with fork and knife&period; Culture can be transmitted from one generation to another&period; During the process of cultural transmission&comma; learning a culture by a new generation is called enculturation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">On the other hand&comma; adopting foreign culture or other cultural norms and values is known as acculturation&period; In this new technological era people can interact with other people living thousands mile away from them&period; Due to social interaction through technology and with mass media people learn new values&period; And if people adopt those learned values of other culture and modify their own culture&comma; it will come under the category of acculturation&period; Mostly&comma; group of people acculturate because they are influenced by the dominant culture in a given society&period; For instance&comma; A Pakistani boy SHAHID immigrates to America&comma; during his first year&comma; he wears&comma; kurta shalwar&semi; which is his native cultural costume but after a year&comma; he starts wearing&comma; t-shirts jeans&comma; suits and tuxedos&comma; so SHAHID acculturated&semi; for the reason that&comma; he adopted foreign culture&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;--CusAds0-->&NewLine;<div style&equals;"font-size&colon; 0px&semi; height&colon; 0px&semi; line-height&colon; 0px&semi; margin&colon; 0&semi; padding&colon; 0&semi; clear&colon; both&semi;"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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