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assimilate
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as·sim·i·late (-sm-lt)
v.
1. To consume and incorporate nutrients into the body after digestion.
2. To transform food into living tissue by the process of anabolism.

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But is the assimilatory process fatally damaged as, for instance, American schools begin to recognize minority heroes and tell the stories of past discrimination?
More consistent with Chu, Lind asserts that "the assimilatory power of American vernacular culture is so great that the focus of nativists and hopes of multiculturalists will almost certainly be confounded as today's so-called Third World immigrants become tomorrow's bland, conventional Middle Americans only incidentally named Ramirez and Wong" (81).
Growing up in the midst of a white-dominated culture, Pecola is eventually driven mad under severe assimilatory pressure.
 
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