Challenge in Adapting to Another Culture and the Influence of Place in Adaptation

Week 4 Discussion: Multicultural Worlds and Acculturation
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My greatest challenge in adapting to another culture is identifying with it because I am past the sensitive period for culture acquisition. According to Heine (2020), the presence of a sensitive timescale within which culture acquisition and adaptation happens (i.e., from birth to roughly 15 years) implies that I will be less likely to identify with the new culture despite interacting with it in the long-term. Individuals are inherently equipped to learn foreign cultures during the early years of life. I will have problems acquiring the new culture over time. I will become largely frustrated by repeated exposure to the culture mainly because I am past the sensitive period for adopting another culture.
In order to overcome the challenge of the sensitive period for culture adaptation and embrace another culture effectively, I will need to change my behaviors from bei...