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cultural assimilation |
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cultural assimilation [kul′chərəl] a process by which members of an ethnic minority group lose cultural characteristics that distinguish them from the dominant cultural group or take on the cultural characteristics of another group. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| I remember Gary DeLoatch, a dancer who lived in my building, discussing the challenges of the rehearsals, mainly the versatility required to demonstrate the central idea of the program, which was cultural assimilation and transformation. Covering the first meeting and clash of cultures in the 1600's down to the modern day, The Montaukett Indians Of Eastern Long Island is a concise history that covers issues of cultural assimilation, political problems, social tensions, and recurring patterns of economic dependency among the Montaukett. Indians under British rule) as well as into the peculiar atmosphere of the Japanese empire, which on the one hand encouraged cultural assimilation by colonial subjects, while at the same time promoted an exclusionist Japanese identity rooted in imagined blood links to an emperor descended from the gods. |
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