nonacculturative

Adjective

nonacculturative (comparative more nonacculturative, superlative most nonacculturative)

1. Not acculturative; preventing or avoiding acculturation.
   • The authors conclude that the adaptive, nonacculturative elements of family organization, in the last analysis, are likely to persist just to the extent that prejudice, discrimination, and economic disadvantage remain the lot of the central-city Black families.1978, Lenwood G. Davis, The Black Family in the United States, page 29
   • The pressures of the 1820s were nonacculturative, for they placed little strain on the evolving friendship of Dakota and white leaders despite the troubles of 1827.1984, Gary Clayton Anderson, Kinsmen of Another Kind, page 128