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.”
Hirahara’s cozy-ish mysteries are a Trojan horse from which hidden histories come pouring out — in particular the long story of Japanese assimilation and alienation in the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times
Todd Parker makes a joke about assimilation and how he has "the whitest name ever."
From Salon
From the 18th century and continuing as late as the 1960s, networks of boarding schools institutionalized the legal kidnapping, abuse, and forced cultural assimilation of Indigenous children in North America.
From Seattle Times
It was only right, the Vatican said, “to recognize these errors, acknowledge the terrible effects of assimilation policies and the pain experienced by Indigenous peoples, and ask for pardon.”
From New York Times
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