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  2. Inequality within immigrant families in the United States

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    Inequality may exist between members of different generations within a family. Assimilation into American society may create changes in the traditional family structure, particularly among immigrants who come from cultures in which age is a strong determinant of status and power. American culture places a high value on individuality.

  3. Second-generation immigrants in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Children of middle class immigrants have a greater likelihood of moving up the social ladder and joining American mainstream society than children of lower class immigrants, as they have access to both the resources provided by their parents and to the educational opportunities afforded to the middle class in the U.S. [12]

  4. Cultural assimilation of Native Americans - Wikipedia

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    Eastern North America; the 1763 "Proclamation line" is the border between the red and the pink areas. Epidemiological and archeological work has established the effects of increased immigration of children accompanying families from Central Africa to North America between 1634 and 1640.

  5. Biden creates Native American boarding school national ...

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    Thousands of Native children passed through the notorious Carlisle Indian Industrial School between 1879 and 1918, including Olympian Jim Thorpe. They came from dozens of tribes under forced assimilation policies that were meant to erase Native American traditions and “civilize" the children so they would better fit into white society.

  6. Americanization (immigration) - Wikipedia

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    The initial stages of immigrant Americanization began in the 1830s. Prior to 1820, foreign immigration to the United States was predominantly from the British Isles.There were other ethnic groups present, such as the French, Swedes and Germans in colonial times, but comparably, these ethnic groups were a minuscule fraction of the whole.

  7. Racial diversity in United States schools - Wikipedia

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    In response to this report, the number of American Indian children enrolled in U.S. public schools grew, but it was a slow process. [3] By the 1980s, United States curricula reflected a diversity of American Indian traditions and beliefs, thanks in part to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 .

  8. Social integration - Wikipedia

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    Extending from the assimilation theory, a third group of scholars proposed a segmented integration theory, stressing that different groups of migrants might follow distinct trajectories towards upward or downward mobility on different dimensions, depending on their individual, contextual and structural factors.

  9. Sociology of immigration - Wikipedia

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    For example, since the 1980s and 1990s, the American economy has favored workers who have valuable skills to offer. If immigrants to the United States, for example, have valuable skills to offer, they may "increase the chances of economic success in the United States, such as the language and culture of the American workplace". [ 20 ]