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nonacculturative en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + acculturative.

Meanings

1. Not acculturative; preventing or avoiding acculturation.
   • This scheme, however, equates the sacred with the nonacculturative tradition and does not account for ways that some Ojibwe people have refused to fix what they consider sacred to particular, especially pre-Christian, forms. 2009, Michael David McNally, Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native Culture in Motion, page 211:
   • For example, Zhou and Bankston's (1996) study on Vietnamese youth reveals that intense participation in Vietnamese community activities (which are nonacculturative in the classical view) may actually facilitate assimilation into American society. 2013, Eunyoung Kim, Jeannette Diaz, Immigrant Students and Higher Education, page 1985:
   • The pressures of the 1820s were nonacculturative, for they placed little strain on the evolving friendship of Dakota and white leaders despite the troubles of 1827. 1984, Gary Clayton Anderson, Kinsmen of Another Kind, page 128:
   • The authors conclude that the adaptive, nonacculturative elements of family organization, in the last analysis, are likely to persist just to the extent that prejudice, discrimination, and economic disadvantage remain the lot of the central-city Black families. 1978, Lenwood G. Davis, The Black Family in the United States, page 29:

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