Little Bee by Chris Cleave is a touching story of intercultural communication, influencing the readers’ views concerning the racial and social prejudices. The author is aimed at falsifying the theories, representing the universal character of Western culture, considering it to be the highest peak of the world civilization. The moral strength and rich inner world of Little Bee, a girl from Africa, one of the novel protagonists, denies Edward Taylor’s theory of three levels of development in every culture. This scientist regarded the western civilization to be the third and highest stage in the hierarchy of the world civilizations, preceded by the stages of savagery and barbarism. But on one hand this classification appears to be primitive, as it is impossible to refer the Nigerians to any of these stages, on the other hand it is extreme. The girl survives the processes of enculturation, which means getting accustomed and gradual transition to the norms of the new society, with dignity, though a sixteen-year-old Nigerian considers these processes meaningless and implying her personal degradation. The fact, that Little Bee regards her native tongue and traditions of her native country to be more developed and expressive, could be explained by her subjectivism and the feelings of the girl. This attitude could also be interpreted as the girl’s ethnocentrism, the person’s belief that his/her ethnicity is superior. But attempting to part with the narrow-mindedness, the author managed to provide evidence that the girl’s emotions result from her sincere love of her motherland. The views of the girl leave behind the views of her peers and her life position and wisdom are remarkable and can not be considered to be the views of a barbarian girl. She is smart and her way of thinking and a talent of drawing the parallels are impressive. In the first chapter the girl explains her feelings as to necessity of learning the new language and uses the unexpected, felicitous comparisons: “Learning the Queen’s English is like scrubbing off the bright red varnish from your toe nails, the morning after a dance. It takes a long time and there is always a little bit left at the end” (p. 7). Using this simile of the English language to the red nail varnish, Little Bee introduces the readers into her picture of life, as the young girl is expected to enjoy her life dancing or communicating with her friends, she would be very surprised at the fact that she used this comparison to describe her attitude to her enculturation. But her life circumstances made her struggle against the difficulties, and intentionally or sometimes unintentionally become assimilated by the unfamiliar culture of the new country. Assimilation of the immigrants presupposes their acceptance of the standards of the dominant culture, obtaining the standards of behavior result in behavioral assimilation or acculturation, while the structural assimilation or social assimilation implies the acceptance of one’s social status and role in the new society, the rile of an immigrant in this case. Describing the process of the girl’s acculturation, the author emphasizes that some of the characteristics of the new standards were negative. For example, the girl is astonished at the photos of the half-naked models in the magazines and hesitates whether this standard should be accepted. Her inner conflict results in her deny comin