The adaptation to, and adoption of, a new culture. This may occur simultaneously as two cultures meet, but occurs more often as an immigrant group takes to the behaviour patterns and standards of the receiving group. A major example is acculturation among African Americans; see H. Landrine and E. Klonoff (1996), and Sclemper (2007) J. Hist. Geog. 33, 2 on acculturation at the regional scale.