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
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.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
That was due in part to assimilation of the Ashkenazi population -- forced and otherwise -- in the Soviet Union, the United States and Israel, where Hebrew is the official language.
From Barron's • Oct. 26, 2025
Gradually, however, with my assimilation in the schoolroom, I began to think of myself and my family as Catholics.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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