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  2. Cultural assimilation - Wikipedia

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    Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assimilates the values, behaviors, ...

  3. Acculturation - Wikipedia

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    Although this view was the earliest to fuse micro-psychological and macro-social factors into an integrated theory, it is clearly focused on assimilation rather than racial or ethnic integration. In Kim's approach, assimilation is unilinear and the sojourner must conform to the majority group culture in order to be "communicatively competent."

  4. Assimilation - Wikipedia

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    Cultural assimilation, the process whereby a minority group gradually adapts to the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture and customs . Language shift, also known as language assimilation, the progressive process whereby a speech community of a language shifts to speaking another language

  5. Syncretism - Wikipedia

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    Syncretism involves the merging or assimilation of several originally discrete traditions, especially in the theology and mythology of religion, thus asserting an underlying unity and allowing for an inclusive approach to other faiths.

  6. 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.

  7. Immigrant generations - Wikipedia

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    However, the ease of acculturation is dependent on age; the older an individual is when they immigrated to the United States, the harder it will be for them to assimilate into American society. [12] As such, even if a Generation 1.5 individual wanted to fully assimilate into American society—which might result in a greater earning potential ...

  8. Loanword - Wikipedia

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    A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing.

  9. Social integration - Wikipedia

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    Social integration does not mean forced assimilation. Social integration is focused on the need to move toward a safe, stable and just society by mending conditions of social conflict , social disintegration , social exclusion , social fragmentation, exclusion and polarization , and by expanding and strengthening conditions of social ...