- 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.
Idi Amin. Idi Amin Dada (17 August 1925 â 16 August 2003) was a repressive dictator of the African country of Uganda. The President of Tanzania at the time, Julius Nyerere, invaded Uganda to save the country from Idi Amin. Amin is famous for sending all Asians, mainly from India and Pakistan, out of Uganda.
The year 2012 marks the 40th anniversary of the Ugandan Asian refugee crisis. On August 4, 1972, then-President of Uganda, Idi Amin, ordered the expulsion of the countryâs Asian population. At the time, there were over 80,000 individuals of Asian origin in Uganda.[1] With 90 days to leave, families scrambled to find a place to go.