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  2. Cultural assimilation - Wikipedia

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    Assimilation assumes that a relatively-tenuous culture gets to be united into one unified culture. That process happens through contact and accommodation between each culture. The current definition of assimilation is usually used to refer to immigrants, but in multiculturalism , cultural assimilation can happen all over the world and within ...

  3. Acculturation - Wikipedia

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    In a melting pot society, in which a harmonious and homogenous culture is promoted, assimilation is the endorsed acculturation strategy. In segregationist societies, in which humans are separated into racial, ethnic and/or religious groups in daily life, a separation acculturation strategy is endorsed.

  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. 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.

  6. Interactive acculturation - Wikipedia

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    Efforts to explain further acculturation and assimilation among immigrant populations led to the formulation of the Bidimensional model of acculturation. Under this model, more importance is placed in viewing the importance immigrant populations identify with the aspects of their own culture.

  7. 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

  8. Integration of immigrants - Wikipedia

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    According to the Canadian migration researcher John W. Berry integration is an acculturation strategy, i.e. a form of how minorities (especially immigrants) behave towards the dominant culture. Integration is in opposition to the other acculturation strategies of assimilation, segregation and marginalisation.

  9. 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.