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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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| His approach is simplicity itself: Touristy souvenirs, seemingly from exotic places like Africa but all purchased from markets in London, have been glued together to form two three-dimensional parallelograms set onto two rickety drafting tables, reminding us that it is indeed time to go back to the drawing board where ethnic assimilation is concerned. In some cases this led to ethnic assimilation and the gradual erasure of a distinctive identity, in others it did not. A chief assumption among political scientists, for instance, has been that increased modernization leads to greater ethnic assimilation. |
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