ACCULTURATION Definition Acculturation is a process in which members of one cultural group adopt the beliefs and behaviors of another

group. Although acculturation is usually in the direction of a minority group adopting habits and language patterns of the dominant group, acculturation can be reciprocal-that is, the dominant group also adopts patterns typical of the minority group. Assimilation of one cultural group into another may be evident by changes in language preference, adoption of common attitudes and values, members hip in common social groups and institutions, and loss of separate political or ethnic identification.

Many indigenous peoples, such as First Nations of Canada, Native Americans of the US, and Australian Aborigines have lost much of their traditional cultures (most evidently, languages) which have been replaced by those of the more dominant cultures. This is just one example of 'acculturation.' Second-language learning is a good example of acculturation on an individual level. The cultural diffusion of foods, music, religion, etc., between neighboring nations or between majority and minority groups is a good example of acculturation at the societal level.

Definition of plural society in English

plural society a society composed of different ethnic groups or cultural traditions, or in the political structure of which ethnic or cultural differences are reflected: Britain has been developing into an increasingly plural society, with a major increase in the size of the non-white ethnic groups

mestizo a person of racially mixed ancestry, especially, in Latin America, of mixed American Indian and European, usually Spanish or Portuguese, ancestry, or, in the Philippines, of mixed native and foreign ancestry.

Definition of MULATTO 1: the first-generation offspring of a black person and a white person 2: a person of mixed white and black ancestry For example; With the beginning of the transatlantic African slave trade in the fifteenth century, the word mulatto first found its way into Portuguese, and then into almost all European languages, as the term for offspring of mixed European (Caucasian) and African (Negroid) parentage.

Sambo A colloquial or humorous appellation for a negro; sometimes, the offspring of a black person and a mulatto; a zambo. Sambo A negro; sometimes, the offspring of a black person and a mulatto; -formerly used colloquially or with humorous intent, but now considered offensive or racist by African-Americans.

Sambo In Central America, an Indian and negro half-breed, or mixed blood.

octoroon A person whose ancestry is one-eighth Black

quadroon

the offspring of a Mulatto and a White person; a person who is one-quarter Black

According to Kamau Braithwaite, Creolisation is a way of seeing the society, not in terms of white and black, master and slave, in separate nuclear units, but as contributory parts of a whole He defines creolisation as a dialectical process of acculturation and interculturation that has produced a series of fragmented and contingent norms in the Caribbean.