Şencan and colleagues shift emotional acculturation from the question of whether people feel similarly to the question of whether they inhabit similar emotional situations. Interviews with Turkish newcomers in Belgium and Dutch-speaking Belgians were analysed through topic modelling, allowing recurrent contexts to emerge from natural-language accounts rather than being imposed in advance. The study distinguishes fit in context from fit in emotion and shows that each group aligns more closely with its own culture’s contextual pattern, even when emotional fit does not follow the same relation. Its strongest conceptual move is to treat context as constitutive rather than background: emotional worlds are patterned by obligations, logistics, communication, interdependence and culturally recurrent situations. Methodologically, qualitative interpretation and quantitative modelling are deliberately combined, producing a model of cultural fit that is multilayered rather than scalar. The paper bridges migration studies, cultural psychology and computational text analysis, replacing acculturation as simple convergence with a more ecological account of how people come to share—or fail to share—worlds.