assimilate to

“I think somebody in the psychology realm should investigate the impact on us 200-percent kids who go between cultures, trying to assimilate to both sides.”

From the need to assimilate to the way that he serves Gracie, Joe is constantly performing the role he's been instructed to play since he was a child.

But the controversial 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie forced the Sioux — a confederation of Great Plains bands — to assimilate to an "American" standard that included mandatory flannel dress, English-speaking schools and sedentary farming on the newly established Great Sioux Reservation.

“They’re starting to assimilate to our programs, our language and what we talk about and feeling like you’re part of the team,” manager Scott Servais said.

The colonists forced the Māori to assimilate to Western traditions and brought diseases such as influenza, smallpox and measles that killed as much as half the Indigenous population which, at its height, had been estimated at more than 110,000.