...Is that a word?
Just doesn't sound like it coming from him :^
"...Is that a word?"
Yes. Try using a dictionary to avoid display of ignorance: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=acculturated
...Is that a word
Acculturated.
Accul*tur*at*ed
1. Leading to Jessie Jackson's wallet
2. Leading to Jessie Jackson's penis
3. Leading to Al Sharpton's wallet and/or penis
4. Leading from William BJ Blinton's penis
"Acculturated....
...Is that a word?"
Yes, it means without culture, as in someone lost their culture. American Indians were supposedly acculturated because of the US Indian Policy of the 1830-1930's or so. The plan was to "Kill the Indian, while saving the man."
I'd say it failed miserably. So has "Refugee" Jackson.
Yes, and it does NOT mean what his context shows he THINKS it means.
From the Encarta online dictionary:
acculturate
verb
Definitions:
1. intransitive verb take on other culture: to absorb and assimilate the culture of another group of people or another person
2. transitive verb change culture of somebody: to change somebody's cultural behavior and thinking through contact with another culture
Example: "John Kerry has been acculturated by faux-French influences, and is now hopelessly alienated from mainstream American society."
Jesse should be worried that, if they remain too far outside the area for too long, they will become acculturated to non-plantation living.
It does NOT, as some here suggest, mean to lose one's culture; or, to not have a culture; nor, as Jesse (mis)uses it, to be one's accustomed birth-culture.