assimilation

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See what remains today: In Valentine, Ariz., the Truxton Canyon Training School, where Indigenous children were forcibly sent for assimilation beginning in 1903, still stands near the highway, marked by a small, impermanent memorial.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

But critics believe this new law will cement Xi's push toward assimilation.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

In this long history of forced English-language assimilation, Puerto Rico remains an outlier.

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026

At the same time, he believes Jewish assimilation is a fantasy, as improbable as the socialism that, he contends, revealed its true nature in the Russian Revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Some of us may have lost our “mother tongue,” as my nanni used to call it, but the custom of tameez—respect—for elders stays strong, despite decades of assimilation.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed