to convert, adapt, or adhere to the needs of societya group of people who are all interdependent and interconnected by their cultural connections; they live in patterned ways and their behaviors in various circumstances are well established; for instance in the Western world most people adhere to lines (cue) at bus stops, or movie theaters, or when checking out at a grocery store; patterned and regular ways of doing things are expected and accepted – this also relates to acculturationacculturation is different from enculturation - and it may be forced as in a conquest of peoples, or it may be voluntary as a person voluntarily becoming acculturated while visiting or moving to another country when in consistent contact with a different cultureculture is not genetically inherited, it is shared, learned, and dynamic- never static than your native one
