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

Even many immigration hawks traditionally argued that newcomers could become fully American through assimilation into constitutional values and institutions.

From Salon • May 11, 2026

Michael Carrick had a neat way of describing Benjamin Sesko's assimilation into life at Manchester United.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 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

Seaborg’s early life told the same quintessentially American story of immigration and assimilation as Ernest Lawrence’s, although his upbringing was rather more insular and culturally constrained than that in the Lawrences’ educated household.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik