Honor your dad with the gift of your time. Demonstrate how much you care by literally being there. Visit often, treat him with respect, and donât be afraid to tell him you love him. 4. Love and respect your family: Let your dad know how much he means to you by treating your mother with respect.
Definition of acculturation. 1  1 : cultural modification of an individual, group, or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture the acculturation of immigrants to American life; also : a merging of cultures as a result of prolonged contact. 2 : the process by which a human being acquires the culture of a particular society from infancy.
- A -. acculturation. the process by which a culture is transformed due to the massive adoption of cultural traits from another society--it is what happens to a culture when alien traits diffuse in on a large scale and substantially replace traditional cultural patterns.daptive mechanism. a behavior, strategy, or technique for obtaining food and surviving in a particular environment. Successful adaptive mechanisms provide a selective advantage in the competition for survival with other life forms. For humans, the most important adaptive mechanism is culture.