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  2. Acculturation - Wikipedia

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    Attitudes towards acculturation, and thus the range of acculturation strategies available, have not been consistent over time. For example, for most of American history, policies and attitudes have been based around established ethnic hierarchies with an expectation of one-way assimilation for predominantly White European immigrants. [27]

  3. Cultural assimilation - Wikipedia

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    An example of voluntary cultural assimilation would be during the Spanish Inquisition, when Jews and Muslims accepted the Roman Catholic Church as their religion, but meanwhile, many people still privately practised their traditional religions. That type of assimilation is used to convince a dominant power that a culture has peacefully ...

  4. Consonant harmony - Wikipedia

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    The following examples are given by de Reuse: in Western Apache, the verbal prefix si-is an alveolar fricative, as in the following forms: siką̄ą̄ "a container and its contents are in position" sitłēēd "mushy matter is in position" siyį̄į̄ "a load/pack/burden is in position" sinéʼ "three or more flexible objects are in position"

  5. Cultural amalgamation - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] It is often described as a more balanced type of cultural interaction than the process of cultural assimilation. [3] [4] Cultural amalgamation does not involve one group's culture changing another group's culture (acculturation) [5] or one group adopting another group's culture (assimilation). [6] [1] Instead, a new culture results. [1]

  6. Articulation (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    Examples of these processes in musical culture include the re-use of elements of bourgeois marches in labor anthems or the assimilation of liberated (in the Marcusian sense) countercultural 1960s rock into a tradition of bourgeois bohemianism and the combination of elements of black and white working-class music with elements of art music that ...

  7. Music of immigrant communities in the United States

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    The vast majority of the inhabitants of the United States are immigrants or descendants of immigrants. This article will focus on the music of these communities and discuss its roots in countries across Africa, Europe and Asia, excluding only Native American music, indigenous and immigrant Latinos, Puerto Rican music, Hawaiian music and African American music.

  8. Romanization (cultural) - Wikipedia

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    Romanization or Latinization (Romanisation or Latinisation), in the historical and cultural meanings of both terms, indicate different historical processes, such as acculturation, integration and assimilation of newly incorporated and peripheral populations by the Roman Republic and the later Roman Empire.

  9. List of cultural and regional genres of music - Wikipedia

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    Many musical genres are particular to some geographical region or to an ethnic, religious or linguistic group. Cultural genres. By ethnicity or origin. Ainu ...