What is culture adaptation?
Culture adaptation is the evolutionary process by which an individual modifies his personal habits and customs to fit in to a particular culture. It can also refer to gradual changes within a culture or society that occur as people from different backgrounds participate in the culture and share their perspectives and practices.SignificanceAdaptation refers to accommodation, change and evolution. Culture embraces the areas of language, history, dress, food, holidays, traditions, religion, music and other forms of art. Culture is the way we do life. By adapting our culture we change our way of life in subtle or more drastic ways.TypesLanguages can undergo cultural adaptation. The phenomenon of Spanglish combines words from one language with another to create new words that do not officially belong to either language. Religions can undergo cultural adaptation by blending traditional beliefs with values of the surrounding society. Foods can undergo cultural adaptation clearly seen in the “