to enculturate

Examples

• All

• Enculturating the young into a democratic society addresses questions of what it means to live in a free society and how we participate in our own governance.

  Academic text (2003)

• They generally refused to accept boys and girls older than sixteen as they believed they would already be firmly enculturated in Dakota ways and difficult to instruct.

  Academic text (2000)

• The community to which we are first enculturated matters a great deal.

  Academic text (1999)

• Though confusing at first to eyes enculturated to modern Western notation, French tablature is a simple and elegant system for notating lute music.

  Academic text (2011)

• Dramatic alteration of the military's paradigm is very difficult; it is tough to change an institution's fundamental beliefs and attitudes, which are enculturated by generations of soldiers.

  Academic text (1994)

• We (in the US) tend to think that women are more emotional (as a stereotype), but are they more emotional because of biology or because they have been taught/enculturated since they were infants to embrace their emotions and be more public with them?

  Blog text (23)

• Parents, correspondingly, have no god-given license to enculturate their children in whatever ways they personally choose: no right to limit the horizons of their children's knowledge, to bring them up in an atmosphere of dogma and superstition, or to insist they follow the straight and narrow paths of their own faith.

  Academic text (1998)

• Children often enculturate into their community's traditions and values from a young age.

• The documentary explores how immigrants enculturate into their new environment while preserving their original customs.

Synonyms

A

to assimilate

vsto enculturate

77 6.1

Become similar to other people by joining their group and learning their customs

is about learning or being taught customs rather than actively changing oneself

A

to acculturate

vsto enculturate

• Specialized

1 8.2

Learn and use the customs and ways of another group

is learned through teaching and upbringing rather than through contact driven change

Antonyms

I

to isolate

256 4.2

To keep someone or something apart from others

A

to alienate

123 6.7

To make someone feel alone and lose support from others

How Integrated

to assimilate

77 6.1

to enculturate

• Specialized

9.0

to adopt

135 3.2

to learn

∞ 1.0

to observe

619 2.4

Surface Forms

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Etymology