Question

The nurse educator is providing education to the nursing staff regarding culturally appropriate nursing care. A nursing student asks the nurse educator to describe the concept of acculturation. Which statement by the nurse is the appropriate response?

Answer 1

Answer:

It means adopting parts of a different culture in when in a new environment.

Explanation: ACCULTURATION is the process through which a person or people try to incorporate a foreign or different cultures into an existing culture. It can also be seen as the process of adopting aspects of a another culture and putting them into to practice in one's own culture.

Acculturation can be seen practiced in some religions like the Adopting of aspects of the Roman culture into practice in countries where such Religious bodies spread to.