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nonacculturated

nonacculturated adjective: unacculturated; not having fully acquired all aspects of the dominant culture.

Adjective

nonacculturated (not comparable)

  1. Unacculturated; not having fully acquired all aspects of the dominant culture.
    • Proexorcist forces such as the military and those with vested interests in Indian lands and resources fought unsuccessfully to make a distinction between acculturated and nonacculturated Indians, whereby only the latter would enjoy the rights guaranteed to Indians in the Constitution.2001, Jonathan W. Warren, Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil
    • The results, displayed in figure 3.3, show that increasing acculturation is associated with significantly higher probabilities of many types of violence: Youth who live in fully acculturated households are significantly mroe likely to hit someone, throw objects at someone, and be in a gang fight...2006, Ramiro Martinez, Jr., Abel Valenzuela, Jr., Immigration and Crime: Ethnicity, Race, and Violence, page 47

Origin of nonacculturated

From non- + acculturated.

Questions about nonacculturated

What does nonacculturated mean?
Nonacculturated means unacculturated; not having fully acquired all aspects of the dominant culture.
What part of speech is nonacculturated?
Nonacculturated is an adjective.

Words near nonacculturated in the dictionary

  1. nonaccretionary
  2. nonaccretive
  3. nonaccruable
  4. nonaccrual
  5. nonaccrued
  6. nonacculturated
  7. nonacculturative
  8. nonaccumulating
  9. nonaccumulation
  10. nonaccumulative
  11. nonaccurate

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