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	Cultural assimilation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cultural assimilation, or 'assimilation' for short (but that word also had other meanings), is an intense process of consistent integration whereby members of an ethno-cultural group, typically immigrants, or other minority groups, are "absorbed" into an established, generally larger community.
		Assimilation can be voluntary, which is usually the case with immigrants, or forced upon a group, as is usually the case with the receiving "host" group.
		Assimilation is or has been the official language policy of many countries around the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cultural_assimilation (818 words)

	Richard, Madeline A. Ethnic Groups and Marital Choices. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1991 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The extent of assimilation is normally assessed in terms of the dissimilarity between the distribution of certain characteristics of the immigrant groups and the dominant cultural group.
		Park, in reference to immigrant assimilation, suggested that the foreign born could be considered assimilated when they fit into the main stream of the host society 'without encountering prejudice' or discrimination as a result of their ethnic or cultural ancestry (1930:281).
		Gordon's assertion that the first stage of assimilation, that is, cultural or behavioural assimilation, could go on forever seems a plausible explanation of the failure of some of the 'older' immigrant populations to exhibit high rates of intermarriage, since intermarriage in not a requisite for cultural assimilation.
	users.rttinc.com /~canadatree/intermar.htm (3164 words)

	Culture, Community and the Curriculum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		If cultural assimilation is not desired, alternative goals must be adequately articulated so as to be able to assess the extent to which schools may or may not be able to contribute to their attainment.
		Cultural pluralism is advocated as an educational goal by those who seek a pluralistic, multi-cultural society in which each ethnic, racial or religious group contributes to the larger society within the context of its own unique cultural traditions (cf., Banks, 1976).
		The minority teacher, as a representative of the student's culture, is able to identify with and directly relate to the cultural patterns indigenous to the community and the student, and thus avoid many of the conflicts and discontinuities associated with schooling for minority students.
	www.ankn.uaf.edu /Curriculum/Articles/RayBarnhardt/CCC.html (14790 words)

	Shlomo Sharan: Assimilation, Normalcy and Jewish Self-Hatred
		Cultural assimilation, unaccompanied by national assimilation, has two subtypes (items 1 and 2 as presented below), whereas the dimensions of cultural and national assimilation that manifest themselves at one and the same time (in the same person) have three subtypes (items 3, 4 and 5 in the model below).
		Cultural assimilation involves the adoption of cultural elements from some other group or society such as its language, dress and other features from amongst the thousand patterns of behavior typical of the time and place.
		Assimilated Jews wish to be accepted by non-Jews as patriotic citizens of the country, and as such they are quite different from the “separatists” who cling to their tribal Jewish identity and whose assimilation is restricted primarily to the cultural realm.
	www.acpr.org.il /ENGLISH-NATIV/08-issue/sharan-8.htm (9151 words)

	Minority Identity and Assimilation of Ethnic and National Minorities in Hungary
		Assimilation of a minority, and consequently the loss of and the attempts to preserve language and culture, are the best indicators of the minority experience.
		These groups fear the completion of the assimilation in the near future, find the threat of annihilation tragic, and they feel that the disappearance of the culture and language of a group with deep historic roots is not only a loss for the minority, but for the Hungarian majority as well.
		Therefore in case of the largely assimilated Armenians it is not the language, but rather the preservation of culture and — as a result of assimilation, the Christian — religion that is in central to them.
	www.osi.hu /ipf/publications/eszters-minority.html (7467 words)

	Reason magazine -- February 1997
		Cultural pluralism is, in fact, the philosophical antecedent of modern multiculturalism--what I call "ethnic federalism": official recognition of distinct, essentially fixed ethnic groups and the doling out of resources based on membership in an ethnic group.
		In Assimilation in American Life (1964), Milton Gordon suggested that there is a typology, or hierarchy, of assimilation, thus capturing some of the key steps that immigrants and ethnic groups go through as their assimilation--their cultural solidarity with native-born Americans, in Park's words--becomes more complete.
		The confusion between acculturation and assimilation is no mere terminological quibble, because the muddling of that distinction has been one of the most durable pegs on which the enemies of assimilation have hung their arguments for keeping the United States permanently divided along ethnic lines.
	reason.com /9702/fe.salins.shtml (4492 words)

	Free Essay Network \| Cultural Assimilation In Hemmingway And The Power Of One
		Cultural Assimilation in Hemmingway and The Power of One Throughout the world, there are many diverse cultures, each of these distinct cultures have different backgrounds, rituals and practices.
		The cultural heritage affects the writers perspective in many different ways, among them are stereotypes and the setting of the story and the everyday activities that the character go through.
		This piece of culture that they pick up also seems to work its way into their writing, sometimes it just bits and pieces of the culture, other times it is on a much larger magnitude.
	www.freeessay.com /essays/785548.html (1737 words)

	The Conversion of American Jewry by Samuel Z. Klausner
		The term "cultural assimilation" refers to the merging of the social relationships, the institutions and organizations of the respective groups.
		Cultural assimilation involves accepting the symbols through which group identity is expressed.
		To estimate the degree of cultural change, a number of scales were created, known in the sociological studies as Guttman scales, which combined a number of related indicators into a valid, reliable measuring tool.
	www.jcpa.org /jl/hit16.htm (2445 words)

	Latino Cultural Assimilation in Adams County, PA: An Outsider's Perspective
		Such cultural identities, as Stuart Hall has observed, are a matter of becoming as well as being, and belong as much to the future as to the past.
		As a consumer culture, we tend to take for granted the hard work that must be invested in such an industry, and additionally, most Americans fail to realize that a large portion of this labor is done by immigrant and migrant workers.
		Assimilation of one cultural group into another can be evidenced by changes in language preference, adoption of common attitudes and values, membership in common social groups and institutions, and loss of separate political, religious or ethnic identification.
	alpha.dickinson.edu /departments/amos/mosaic98/serpentine2.htm (4409 words)

	Cultural Assimilation Is Bad for Your Health- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Dietary habits and cultural attitudes toward drugs, cigarettes and alcohol, as well as an Individual's self-image and the role he or she plays in a social support network, are all important.
		The American culture that immigrants must adopt to is not as robust and ascendant as It once was.
		But the real culture wars are not the rhetorical battles being fought on Capital Hill, but those that occur daily In immigrant households, for whom culture is not an abstraction but a matter of immediate physical and social well-being.
	www.cesla.med.ucla.edu /oped/12-17-95.htm (1210 words)

	The Australian Public Intellectual Network
		Assimilation sought national cohesion, but the route to, and the entailments of, national cohesion were matters of contention.
		Assimilation was a dispersed and conflicted discourse, and only by appreciating this fact, rather than reducing it to a singular, unified strategy, can we comprehend its potency and credibility.
		In this rendition, the individual treads a path between two cultures; his or her destination is already known, as is the point of departure, and success in the journey demands discarding the baggage of an outworn culture.
	www.api-network.com /articles/index.php?jas75_mcgregor (4853 words)

	Research Interests
		Assimilation arguments have usually focused on Gordon's seven dimensions of assimilation: cultural, structural, marital, identificational, attitude receptional, behavior receptional, and civic assimilational (1964:71).
		Assimilation and 'melting pot' observers, in one way or another, claim that the assimilation process invariably transforms the role of ethnic religion over the course of several generations (Park 1950, Herberg 1960, Gordon 1964, Mullins 1987).
		At the same time, many observers have questioned the assumptions that the host society unilaterally dictates the terms of assimilation, that the change is a linear progression from foreignness to Americanization, and that individuals experience the assimilation process passively and unconsciously.
	www.nd.edu /~schun/research.htm (1739 words)

	What is Assimilation? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Educational sociologist J.T. Borhek defines assimilation as "the process by which the boundaries of ethnic groups are broken down" (Borhek 33).
		This concept of assimilation focuses on the dynamic forces at work on the social membrane holding communities together in lands where they are or have become ethnic minorities.
		The question mark appears all the more wily because assimilation is not simply the opposite of "cohesion," which refers to a person’s position with respect to his or her ethnic community, but also involves the entire process of defining oneself with respect to the wider, national community.
	beatl.barnard.columbia.edu /students/his3464y/straus/assim.html (427 words)

	Beyond Assimilation
		'Assimilation' in this context was understood in the bodily sense of the term: it did not mean (as it could have) working for social and economic equality and mutual enrichment between Aboriginal and European peoples, but the swallowing up, the absorption, of the former by the latter.
		It is not really a frontier between two radically different cultures; the identities of mother and daughter are too blurred and shifting for that.
		My second comment is that as we continue to discuss the role of culture in the social conflicts and injustices of the present, work like Moffatt's is developing a tradition which is enabling for others as well as herself.
	www.rouge.com.au /3/beyond.html (6437 words)

	Assimilation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Assimilation (biology), the conversion of nutrient into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption
		Cultural assimilation, the process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture
		Assimilation (Star Trek), process used by the fictional Borg race to integrate a being into the collective structure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Assimilation (196 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Great efforts made to prevent cultural assimilation: Chinese official
		"The protection of ethnic culture is stipulated in China's Constitution, laws and regulations," said Tondrub Wangden, vice director of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission.
		Commenting on economic impact on cultural traditions, Tondrub said cultural preservation is a universal conundrum and was not unique to China.
		The construction of the Qinghai-Tibet railway and water conservancy projects in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces had aroused concerns of cultural damages.
	english.peopledaily.com.cn /200609/21/eng20060921_305012.html (450 words)

	lect4
		Assimilation: May be defined as a process of boundary reduction that can occur when members of two or more societies or of smaller cultural groups meet.
		Many have argued that in the USA the cultural pluralism rather than assimilation is the desirable end product of American inter ethnic relations.
		Characterized by cultural and physical separation of ethnic groups, but the key difference between these and colonial societies is the extent to which one group is dominant.
	oregonstate.edu /instruct/soc437/plazad/lect4.htm (994 words)

	A dynamic model of cultural assimilation
		The paper analyzes the population dynamics of a country that has two ethnic groups, a minority and a majority.
		Minority members can choose whether or not to assimilate into the majority.
		If the minority is small, the long-run outcome is full assimilation.
	escholarship.bc.edu /econ_papers/80 (158 words)

	Cultural assimilation by addition
		Trying to understand the way people act, and talk, their jesters, being made fun of and at, and trying to communicate with the little possible language he has he seems like a lost kid.
		Considering the process he has experienced, as well as more general cultural differences between the people, trying to get better and better he became me. Cultural shift have a huge impacts on peoples lives, especially teenagers, manipulating their life styles in separate ways.
		Assimilation of these in a positive way may result in a positive effect on the life style.
	www.essaysword.com /viewpaper/64258.html (207 words)

	VDARE.com: 01/25/04 - Four Failed Immigration Approaches And A Disturbing Thought About Those Happy Hispanic Workers
		Likewise, the third generation of Britain's Pakistani Muslims, the tall and surly grandsons of the short and obsequious peasants brought in to work in the mills of Northern England, was responsible for the major race riots of 2001.
		Germans aren't that much more enthused about assimilating the descendents of the gastarbeiters of the 1950s than these Turks are interested in becoming assimilated.
		Finally, the French have traditionally tried to do with their immigrants almost exactly what the neocons recommend here: cultural assimilation, education in civics theories, monolingualism, meritocracy, separation of church and state, and all the rest.
	www.vdare.com /sailer/invite_the_world.htm (1424 words)

	Cultural Assimilation of the Internet
		In particular, we were wary of mandating policy and enforcing changes in the culture without careful assessment of people's perceptions and needs (Sarason, 1988).
		For the Task Force, dedicated to continuing the assimilation of the Internet culture into the local culture, these findings provide a clear mandate for respecting diverse points of view and for providing comprehensive support.
		Overall, the local culture is moving toward the Internet, but we are far from assimilating the two cultures.
	carbon.cudenver.edu /~bwilson/cultass.html (6228 words)

	Baguettes versus Softbread: Urbanisation and cultural assimilation in British and French West Africa 1900-60 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Previous possessions had tended to be coastal enclaves ruled directly from Europe and assimilated to it, and the assimilation was so great that fl Africans identified themselves far more with the colonial rulers than with the peoples of the African interior.
		‘European culture has inevitably made little progress in West Africa generally; in the capitals there is a small body of men who have assimilated in very varying degrees European ideals, but who in doing so have rendered themselves less able to interpret the aspirations of their fellow-countrymen.
		The Colonial Office reported in 1920 that ‘European culture has inevitably made little progress in West Africa generally; in the capitals there is a small body of men who have assimilated in very varying degrees European ideals, but who in doing so have rendered themselves less able to interpret the aspirations of their fellow-countrymen.’
	www.donaldstark.co.uk /baguette.html (13226 words)

	Cultural Assimilation: See what people are saying right now on Technorati
		Cultural Assimilation: See what people are saying right now on Technorati
		This One’s For Ward Churchill: The cultural a...
		Cultural assimilation per day for the last 30 days.
	www.technorati.com /tag/Cultural+assimilation (290 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Myth of the Melting Pot: America's Racial and Ethnic Divides
		But despite this strife, many historians argue that there was a greater consensus in the past on what it meant to be an American, a yearning for a common language and culture, and a desire – encouraged, if not coerced by members of the dominant white Protestant culture – to assimilate.
		More often than not, the neighborhoods where Americans live, the politicians and propositions they vote for, the cultures they immerse themselves in, the friends and spouses they have, the churches and schools they attend, and the way they view themselves are defined by ethnicity.
		James P. Allen, a cultural geographer at California State University-Northridge, suggests that while Los Angeles, as seen from an airplane, is a tremendously mixed society, on the ground, racial homogeneity and segregation are common.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/longterm/meltingpot/melt0222.htm (3077 words)

	The Cultural Assimilation Process
		Many immigrants want to attend your church and are eager to become Americans, practice their English, and learn as much as they can about their new country and culture (including our Christ!) And you will get to know some fascinating people, learn about their culture, and hear their amazing stories of God's faithfulness.
		Although it may be difficult for immigrant parents to accept, their children are Americans and want to experience all the music, culture and opportunities of their homeland.
		The Five Stages of Culture Shock is an interesting article written by college students.
	www.ethnicharvest.org /links/assimilation.htm (845 words)

	Demetrius at The Australian National University: Item 1885/41758 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The 20th century has not been one for Occidentals to be proud of, when you think of the aspirations of Western liberals at its outset, the efforts directed at all manner of progress and improvement, and how much so many millions of people have ended up suffering, and continue to suffer, at each other=s hands.
		Just as it was the duty of Europeans to cultivate the land to its maximum capacity, so too it was their duty to >cultivate=, educate Aboriginal children to their >maximum= capacity, that is, as assimilated and Europeanised.
		Civilized society is, in this usage, exactly what Aborigines are not part of, and it was this exclusion which supported the denial of their access to full citizenship, apparently leaving unchallenged the broader conceptions of egalitarianism and equity on which Australian national identity was supposed to rest.
	hdl.handle.net /1885/41758 (628 words)

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