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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, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially. [1] The different types of cultural assimilation include full assimilation and forced assimilation.

  3. Acculturation - Wikipedia

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    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] Cultural imperialism can take the form of an active, formal policy or a general attitude regarding cultural superiority.

  4. Cultural assimilation of Native Americans - Wikipedia

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    A series of efforts were made by the United States to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream European–American culture between the years of 1790 and 1920. [1] [2] George Washington and Henry Knox were first to propose, in the American context, the cultural assimilation of Native Americans. [3]

  5. 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

  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. Forced assimilation - Wikipedia

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    Forced assimilation is the involuntary cultural assimilation of religious or ethnic minority groups, during which they are forced by a government to adopt the language, national identity, norms, mores, customs, traditions, values, mentality, perceptions, way of life, and often the religion and ideology of an established and generally larger community belonging to a dominant culture.

  8. Integration of immigrants - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, it is also possible that migrants and members of (originally) established minorities partially retain characteristics of their culture of origin, but also adopt elements of the culture of the host country. John W. Berry uses the term integration as a contrast to the terms assimilation, segregation and marginalization.

  9. Multiculturalism - Wikipedia

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    The language itself was often standardised by a linguistic academy, and regional languages were ignored or suppressed. Some nation-states pursued violent policies of cultural assimilation and even ethnic cleansing. [128] Some countries in the European Union have introduced policies for "social cohesion", "integration", and (sometimes ...