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  2. Cultural assimilation - Wikipedia

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    The different types of cultural assimilation include full assimilation and forced assimilation. Full assimilation is the more prevalent of the two, as it occurs spontaneously. [ 2 ] When used as a political ideology, assimilationism refers to governmental policies of deliberately assimilating ethnic groups into the national culture.

  3. Language shift - Wikipedia

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    Language shift, also known as language transfer, language replacement or language assimilation, is the process whereby a speech community shifts to a different language, usually over an extended period of time.

  4. Social integration - Wikipedia

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    Integration was first studied by Valle and Burgess in 1921 through the concept of assimilation. They defined it as "a process of interpenetration and fusion in which persons and groups acquire the memories, sentiments, and attitude of other persons and groups and by sharing their experience and history, are incorporated with them in a common ...

  5. Category:Cultural assimilation - Wikipedia

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    Cultural assimilation is the process by which a person or a group's language and/or culture come to resemble those of another group. The term is used to refer to both individuals and groups, and in the latter case it can refer to either immigrant diasporas or native residents that come to be culturally dominated by another society.

  6. Assimilation (phonology) - Wikipedia

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    Assimilation is a sound change in which some phonemes (typically consonants or vowels) change to become more similar to other nearby sounds. A common type of phonological process across languages, assimilation can occur either within a word or between words. It occurs in normal speech but becomes more common in more rapid speech.

  7. Intercultural communication - Wikipedia

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    Intercultural communication is a discipline that studies communication across different cultures and social groups, or how culture affects communication.It describes the wide range of communication processes and problems that naturally appear within an organization or social context made up of individuals from different religious, social, ethnic, and educational backgrounds.

  8. Anglicisation - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic anglicisation is the practice of modifying foreign words, names, and phrases to make them easier to spell, pronounce or understand in English. [1] [2] The term commonly refers to the respelling of foreign words, often to a more drastic degree than that implied in, for example, romanisation.

  9. Acculturation - Wikipedia

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    Because of this, cultural appropriation for monetary gain is typically viewed negatively, and has sometimes been called "cultural theft". Cultural imperialism is the practice of promoting the culture or language of one nation in another, usually occurring in situations in which assimilation is the dominant strategy of acculturation. [53]