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  2. Cultural assimilation - Wikipedia

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    The term "assimilation" is often used about not only indigenous groups but also immigrants settled in a new land. A new culture and new attitudes toward the original culture are obtained through contact and communication. Assimilation assumes that a relatively-tenuous culture gets to be united into one unified culture.

  3. Assimilation - Wikipedia

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    Jewish assimilation refers to the gradual cultural assimilation and social integration of Jews in their surrounding culture; Religious assimilation refers to the adoption of a majority or dominant culture's religious practices and beliefs by a minority or subordinate culture; Assimilation effect, a frequently observed bias in social cognition

  4. Cultural assimilation of Native Americans - Wikipedia

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    The document defined a boundary to demarcate Native American territory from that of the European-American settlers. Despite the intentions of the Crown, the proclamation did not effectively prevent colonists from continuing to migrate westward. The British did not have sufficient forces to patrol the border and keep out migrating colonists.

  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. Integration of immigrants - Wikipedia

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    The integration of immigrants or migrant integration is the process of social integration of immigrants and their descendants in a society.. Central aspects of social integration are language, education, the labour market, participation, values and identification within the host country.

  7. 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. Assimilation ...

  8. Social death - Wikipedia

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    Social death is the condition of people not accepted as fully human by wider society. It refers to when someone is treated as if they are dead or non-existent. [1] It is used by sociologists such as Orlando Patterson and Zygmunt Bauman, and historians of slavery and the Holocaust to describe the part played by governmental and social segregation in that process.

  9. Passing (racial identity) - Wikipedia

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    Historically, the term has been used primarily in the United States to describe a black person, especially a Mulatto person who assimilated into the white majority to escape the legal and social conventions of racial segregation and discrimination. In the Antebellum South, passing as white was a temporary disguise used as a means of escaping ...