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Cultural assimilation

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Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble those of a dominant group. [1]

57 relations: Acculturation, Ancient Rome, Anglicisation, Annual Review of Sociology, Carl L. Bankston, Christianization, Conformity, Cultural appropriation, Cultural assimilation of Native Americans, Cultural genocide, Cultural imperialism, Culture change, Culture of ancient Rome, Diaspora politics, Enculturation, Ethnic group, Ethnic interest group, Ethnocide, Exogamy, Forced assimilation, Forced conversion, Globalization, Growing Up American, Hegemony, Henry Pratt Fairchild, History, Immigrant-host model, Immigration and crime, Indigenization, Intercultural communication, Intercultural competence, Islamization, Language death, Language shift, Latin, Leitkultur, Melting pot, Min Zhou, Minority group, More Irish than the Irish themselves, Multiculturalism, Nationalism, Parallel society, Patriotism, Political correctness, Race (human categorization), Racial integration, Racial segregation, Recuperation (politics), Religious assimilation, ..., Russification, Second language, Social class, Social integration, Socioeconomic status, Sociology of race and ethnic relations, Stolen Generations. Expand index (7 more) »

Acculturation

Acculturation is the process of social, psychological, and cultural change that stems from blending between cultures.

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Ancient Rome

In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.

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Anglicisation

Anglicisation (or anglicization, see English spelling differences), occasionally anglification, anglifying, englishing, refers to modifications made to foreign words, names and phrases to make them easier to spell, pronounce, or understand in English.

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Annual Review of Sociology

The Annual Review of Sociology is an annual peer-reviewed review journal published by Annual Reviews since 1975.

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Carl L. Bankston

Carl L. Bankston III (born August 8, 1952 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American sociologist and author.

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Christianization

Christianization (or Christianisation) is the conversion of individuals to Christianity or the conversion of entire groups at once.

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Conformity

Conformity is the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms.

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Cultural appropriation

Cultural appropriation is a concept dealing with the adoption of the elements of a minority culture by members of the dominant culture.

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Cultural assimilation of Native Americans

The cultural assimilation of Native Americans was an assimilation effort by the United States to transform Native American culture to European–American culture between the years of 1790 and 1920.

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Cultural genocide

Cultural genocide or cultural cleansing is a concept that lawyer Raphael Lemkin distinguished in 1944 as a component of genocide.

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Cultural imperialism

Cultural imperialism comprises the cultural aspects of imperialism.

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Culture change

Culture change is a term used in public policy making that emphasizes the influence of cultural capital on individual and community behavior.

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Culture of ancient Rome

The culture of ancient Rome existed throughout almost 1200-year history of the civilization of Ancient Rome.

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Diaspora politics

Diaspora politics is the political behavior of transnational ethnic diasporas, their relationship with their ethnic homelands and their host states, and their prominent role in ethnic conflicts.

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Enculturation

Enculturation is the process by which people learn the dynamics of their surrounding culture and acquire values and norms appropriate or necessary in that culture and worldviews.

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Ethnic group

An ethnic group, or an ethnicity, is a category of people who identify with each other based on similarities such as common ancestry, language, history, society, culture or nation.

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Ethnic interest group

An ethnic interest group or ethnic lobby, according to Thomas Ambrosio, is an advocacy group (often a foreign policy interest group) established along cultural, ethnic, religious or racial lines by an ethnic group for the purposes of directly or indirectly influencing the foreign policy of their resident country in support of the homeland and/or ethnic kin abroad with which they identify.

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Ethnocide

Ethnocide refers to extermination of national culture as a genocide component.

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Exogamy

Exogamy is a social arrangement where marriage is allowed only outside a social group.

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Forced assimilation

Forced assimilation is a process of cultural assimilation of religious or ethnic minority groups that is forced into an established and generally larger community.

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Forced conversion

Forced conversion is adoption of a different religion or irreligion under duress.

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Globalization

Globalization or globalisation is the process of interaction and integration between people, companies, and governments worldwide.

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Growing Up American

Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States, by Min Zhou and Carl L. Bankston III is one of the most influential books on the Vietnamese American experience.

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Hegemony

Hegemony (or) is the political, economic, or military predominance or control of one state over others.

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Henry Pratt Fairchild

Henry Pratt Fairchild (August 18, 1880 – October 2, 1956) was a distinguished American sociologist.

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History

History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past as it is described in written documents.

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Immigrant-host model

The immigrant-host model was an approach that developed in postwar sociology to explain the new patterns of immigration and racism.

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Immigration and crime

Immigration and crime refers to perceived or actual relationships between crime and immigration.

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Indigenization

Indigenization is the act of making something more native; transformation of some service, idea, etc.

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Intercultural communication

Intercultural communication is a discipline that studies communication across different cultures and social groups, or how culture affects communication.

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Intercultural competence

U.S. Military Academy Center for Languages, Cultures, and Regional Studies.

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Islamization

Islamization (also spelled Islamisation, see spelling differences; أسلمة), Islamicization or Islamification is the process of a society's shift towards Islam, such as found in Sudan, Pakistan, Iran, Malaysia, or Algeria.

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Language death

In linguistics, language death occurs when a language loses its last native speaker.

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Language shift

Language shift, also known as language transfer or language replacement or language assimilation, is the process whereby a community of speakers of a language shifts to speaking a completely different language, usually over an extended period of time.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Leitkultur

Leitkultur is a German concept, which can be translated as 'guiding culture' or 'leading culture', less literally as 'common culture', 'core culture' or 'basic culture'.

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Melting pot

The melting pot is a monocultural metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements "melting together" into a harmonious whole with a common culture or vice versa, for a homogeneous society becoming more heterogeneous through the influx of foreign elements with different cultural background with a potential creation of disharmony with the previous culture.

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Min Zhou

Min Zhou (born July 14, 1956 in Zhongshan), is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is the founding chair of the University's Department of Asian American Studies.

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Minority group

A minority group refers to a category of people differentiated from the social majority, those who hold on to major positions of social power in a society.

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More Irish than the Irish themselves

"More Irish than the Irish themselves" (Níos Gaelaí ná na Gaeil féin, Hiberniores Hibernis ipsis) is a phrase used in Irish historiography to describe a phenomenon of cultural assimilation in late medieval Norman Ireland.

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Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism is a term with a range of meanings in the contexts of sociology, political philosophy, and in colloquial use.

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Nationalism

Nationalism is a political, social, and economic system characterized by the promotion of the interests of a particular nation, especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining sovereignty (self-governance) over the homeland.

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Parallel society

Parallel society (Parallelgesellschaft) refers to the self-organization of an ethnic or religious minority, often immigrant groups, with the intent of a reduced or minimal spatial, social and cultural contact with the majority society into which they immigrate.

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Patriotism

Patriotism or national pride is the ideology of love and devotion to a homeland, and a sense of alliance with other citizens who share the same values.

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Political correctness

The term political correctness (adjectivally: politically correct; commonly abbreviated to PC or P.C.) is used to describe language, policies, or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society.

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Race (human categorization)

A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into categories generally viewed as distinct by society.

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Racial integration

Racial integration, or simply integration, includes desegregation (the process of ending systematic racial segregation).

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Racial segregation

Racial segregation is the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life.

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Recuperation (politics)

Recuperation, in the sociological sense, is the process by which politically radical ideas and images are twisted, co-opted, absorbed, defused, incorporated, annexed and commodified within media culture and bourgeois society, and thus become interpreted through a neutralized, innocuous or more socially conventional perspective.

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Religious assimilation

Religious assimilation refers to the adoption of a majority or dominant culture's religious practices and beliefs by a minority or subordinate culture.

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Russification

Russification (Русификация), or Russianization, is a form of cultural assimilation process during which non-Russian communities, voluntarily or not, give up their culture and language in favor of the Russian one.

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Second language

A person's second language or L2, is a language that is not the native language of the speaker, but that is used in the locale of that person.

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Social class

A social class is a set of subjectively defined concepts in the social sciences and political theory centered on models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the upper, middle and lower classes.

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Social integration

Social integration is the process during which newcomers or minorities are incorporated into the social structure of the host society.

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Socioeconomic status

Socioeconomic status (SES) is an economic and sociological combined total measure of a person's work experience and of an individual's or family's economic and social position in relation to others, based on income, education, and occupation.

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Sociology of race and ethnic relations

The sociology of race and ethnic relations is the study of social, political, and economic relations between races and ethnicities at all levels of society.

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Stolen Generations

The Stolen Generations (also known as Stolen Children) were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies and church missions, under acts of their respective parliaments.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_assimilation

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