Acculturation: a definition and it's relation to globalisation

In a previous post I came across the term 'acculturation'. In this post it's initial appearence was listed as a negative impact of globalisation. First question in investigating this statement should be "what exactly is acculturation?" Kottak (2007) describes acculturation as the process that takes place when two groups of individuals meet and exchange, and potentially alter their cultural definitions or patterns, and that these changes are likely to take place in the minority group in response to the dominating group imposing the changes. Taking this into consideration, we can understand that where globalisation takes place, groups of people may take on the cultural definitions of another group; an example based upon this may be that individuals in LEDCs where a TNC has established itself may take on the characters and cultural definitions of those indiviuals from MEDCs. On initial reaction to this, it could be agreed that acculturation is a negative impact of globalisation. Afterall, shouldn't we all be proud of our heritage and where we come from? Berry (2008) argues that globalisation may not result in a negatively imposed homogenous society. The paper continues to conclude that while a range of results may occur in response to cultural integration, from maintence of cultural identity to a complete loss of psychological  identity, the most likely outcome is social integration. So could we not argue that this is a possible positive impact of globalisation? As the world is becoming more globalised, new cultures are hopefully being embraced and individuals from both minority and dominant groups, or those from MEDCs and LEDCs, are becoming more tolerant of indviduals from the opposite group.

So, far from being black and white, the positive and negative impacts of globalisation are perhaps, at least with the example of acculturation, are a little more difficult to assign.