assimilation
Example Sentences
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They sought to accelerate the acculturation and assimilation of the many immigrants into one people, which, as the Massachusetts political and literary figure Fisher Ames pointed out, meant, “to use the modern jargon, nationalized.”
He passed through various stages of social assimilation because his level of English was very basic when he arrived in New York.
From Los Angeles Times
Do you think it presented a different idea about assimilation and how people integrate into communities?
From Los Angeles Times
Some Indigenous families have faced substance use issues for decades, a consequence of centuries of systemic violence and cultural genocide committed against Indigenous people through federally mandated programs of assimilation, land dispossession and family separation.
From Seattle Times
"This is the only area where we have pure Ogiek without assimilation," he said.
From BBC
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