- A -. acculturation. the process by which a culture is transformed due to the massive adoption of cultural traits from another society--it is what happens to a culture when alien traits diffuse in on a large scale and substantially replace traditional cultural patterns.
Idi Amin. Idi Amin Dada (17 August 1925 â 16 August 2003) was a repressive dictator of the African country of Uganda. The President of Tanzania at the time, Julius Nyerere, invaded Uganda to save the country from Idi Amin. Amin is famous for sending all Asians, mainly from India and Pakistan, out of Uganda.
(born 1927). U.S. public official David Dinkins served as the first African American mayor of New York City (1990-94). Previous to his election, he served as a New York state assemblyman from 1966 to 1967, as New York City clerk from 1975 to 1985, and as Manhattan borough president from 1986 to 1990.