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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.


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These additions, as well as Haruo Sato's encounters with Taiwan's aboriginal tribes, are valuable in that they chronicle the frequent and often brave criticism of Tokyo's policies of forced assimilation (especially in the field of language education) by Japanese intellectuals.
[that] amount to a widespread campaign of intimidation and forced assimilation.
Both the Dawes Act and the Massacre at Wounded Knee ushered in the modern era for Native Americans as an official policy of forced assimilation and the attempt to eradicate distinctive tribal cultures.
 
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