Acculturation
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A process by which the culture of an isolated society changes on contact with a different one A process by which a person acquires the culture of the society that he/she inhabits
Assimilation
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.The metabolic conversion of nutriments into tissue.The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
Example sentence: It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.