The Human Tendency To Imitate Strangers, To Travel And Exchange

"Acculturated persons are those who find that they are no longer treated as the sort of people they thought they were, because the outside world has changed. An economic misfortune or a new technology, or being conquered by another country or political faction... If I hadn't learned to live without a culture and a society, acculturation would have broken my haert a thousand times.(32)" - Vonnegut's Timequake