Abstract

Culture plays an important role in every individual's life. Culture builds a moral and ethical compartmentalisation in an individual’s life. The process of socialization is prominent in the starting phase of the individuals, which builds their personality and behaviour. However, the process of acculturation, learning a new cultural practice in life influences the individual’s life. The interconnection of the culture motivates and transforms the interpersonal interactions around the society and the individual creates the ideas of adopting the various cultural practices. From a psychological point of view, the new contextual complexity makes it harder to develop a sense of self and belonging within a particular community or society. Acculturation is a multifaceted process and individuals of the recent times around the world are going through the process of encountering new cultures and influences with it. In this context, the paper intended to analyse the individual behaviour changes with the acculturation process. How the acculturation process is multifaceted and influences an individual's behaviour? The present study elicited that acculturation is a multifaceted process and individual self, identity and societal changes affect the process of acculturation.