(1) To limit, temper, or withhold the
expression of one's thought or opinion because of fear that one will be ridiculed or
humiliated for expressing it by others around them. (2) The act of limiting, silencing, or prohibiting the expression of anohter person's thoughts or opinions by ridiculing or
humiliating them.
(1). Bob had to aculture his support for the
New York Yankees when he moved to Boston. (2) As a child of blue-collar parents, Tom inherently supported tariffs and quotas in trade policy, but he acultured those views at his meeting with the economists, who all treated protectionism as though it was some oddball religious cult. (3). Bob's Boston co-workers would always aculture Bob's comments supporting the
New York Yankees, so it seemed as if everyone in the office was a fan of the
Boston Red Sox. (4). Sally was a devout Christian fundamentlst, but she had to aculture her views on Divine Creationism while writing her paper about Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.