Enculturation

Under enculturation, a loan word from English ( " integrate into a culture " ), refers to the part of the socialization process, which causes the imperceptible ingrowth into the respective own culture from the first neutral and culture- free newborns up to culturally integrated adults. Enculturation involves the automatic, not controlled by intentional education internalization of a culture and the conscious planned growth into the form of education as Enkulturationshilfe and thus sets itself apart from the acculturation.

The British anthropologist Nigel Barley compares the result of enculturation, the Kulturhaftigkeit own, with our feet:

"We do not see them because they are right under our beer belly and we are used to looking at the world without it. If we perceive it at all, we see them as part of the world. The culture of the other, however, is how the feet under their beer bellies, and obviously lends itself to unbiased and lengthy investigations and comparisons. "

The imperceptibility and unreflectedness of cultural learning and the experiential only in contrast to other, foreign cultures own Kulturhaftigkeit often lead to their own culture for normal, natural, or to keep God-given. Intercultural learning, international experience, multi-cultural encounters are therefore important approaches and opportunities, cultural centeredness, ethnocentrism, racism and nationalism to counter.