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• assimilation occurs wherein the original culture is wholly abandoned and the new culture adopted in its place.
• Acculturation is a process through which a person or group from one culture comes to adopt the practices and values of another culture, while still retaining their own distinct culture.
• acculturation is a two-way process, so those within the majority culture often adopt elements of minority cultures with which they come into contact. The process plays out between groups where neither is necessarily a majority or a minority.
• Assimilation can be an eventual outcome of the acculturation process, but the process can have other outcomes as well, including rejection, integration, marginalization, and transmutation.
• At the group level, acculturation entails the widespread adoption of the values, practices, forms of art, and technologies of another culture.

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