Acculturation (Topical Term)

Merriam Webster online, June 12, 2018: def. 1 (cultural modification of an individual, group, or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture; also, a merging of cultures as a result of prolonged contact)

Encyclopedia of diversity and social justice via Credo online, June 12, 2018: acculturation (the process by which outsiders -- both ethnic groups as a whole and individual members of those groups -- adapt to mainstream culture and structure of a society; the adapting groups or individuals may be newcomers or internally marginalized subordinate groups; in recent years, the prevailing use of the word ahs been to describe acculturation as essentially a one-directional process; the newcomers adapt to the mainstream; according to this traditional view, the mainstream remains basically unchanged)

Columbia encyclopedia, 2017, via Credo online, June 12, 2018: acculturation (culture changes resulting from contact among various societies over time; may have distinct results, such as the borrowing of certain traits by one culture from another, or the relative fusion of separate cultures)

Here are entered works on cultural change caused by prolonged contact between social groups, leading to a change in one or both cultures. Works on the often unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of elements of a minority culture by members of a dominant culture are entered under Cultural appropriation. Works on the absorption of a minority group into the culture, values, and social behaviors of the dominant culture are entered under Assimilation (Sociology)

Notes under Cultural appropriation; Assimilation (Sociology)