The process of globalization, which initially dominated only the economic sphere, later determined profound social, political and cultural transformations, having a significant impact on national cultures by standardizing them and shaping a global culture. In this context, intercultural communication has become an inevitable and timely fact, facilitating contact between people and groups belonging to different cultures, contributing to the understanding of cultural variability, awareness of existing differences and similarities, facilitating the acceptance and taking over of new elements of material and spiritual culture. Cultural contacts, but also the promotion of intercultural communication, contributed to the remodeling of identity, but did not always induce positive identity developments. One of the most frequent results has become acculturation, a slow process of long-term learning and adaptation to a new culture, which involves the reshaping of consciousness. Acculturation, as a bidimensional and bidirectional process, contributes to the identity development, but can also become an identity threat. Acculturative stress is a pathological reaction of „missing home”, representing, in fact, a failure of adaptation, generated by the inability to accept another culture, and is due to an internal mental state, which interferes and blocks the possibility of adjustment to a new cultural realities. In order to overcome acculturation stress, the intercultural distance between people from different cultures must be reduced and established a constructive dialogue.