While collecting demographics, the nurse learns an American patient is married to an immigrant from another country. What does this patient's marriage exemplify?
1. Assimilation
2. Socialization
3. Acculturation
4. Ethnicity
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Explanation: 1. Marital assimilation occurs when members of one group intermarry with members of another group.
2. Socialization is the process of being raised within a culture and acquiring the characteristics of that group.
3. Acculturation is changing one's cultural patterns to those of the host society.
4. Ethnicity is a group of people who share a common and distinctive racial, national, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage.
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