How does acculturation help me as person living an everyday life?

First, let's start off with a definition to help us understand what acculturation is. Acculturation according to rice.edu is a process in which members of one cultural group adopt the beliefs and behaviors of another group. From my personal experiences, acculturation has helped me in my travel over seas by helping me adapt to the culture I was shortly submersed for a brief period of time. Before I left for my destinations I had to attend classes about the do's and don't of the country I was traveling to. For example, in one country we were told that while we were out and about town doing mission work that we had to wear long pants and most of the time a nice shirt. A lot of the time, at least from my understanding, this had to do with showing different social status' and also this was their custom. As a future health educator, I think about how acculturation can benefit me throughout my professional career and it boils down to me completely understanding how I best serve the community around me, and if I don't understand the norms and rituals of the ones I am serving then serving them becomes limited because of my lack of knowledge of what really makes them tick. As a non-health educator, acculturation can help by us understanding the people around us in our everyday lives. http://www.rice.edu/projects/HispanicHealth/Acculturation.html