Assimilation In Nunavut

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The life lesson one would learn from the experience one reads in the text is how assimilation affects people in the world. In the text In Nunavut, a daily struggle for sustenance as food program flops: it shows how assimilation has harshly affected Israel Mablick and his family. Assimilation affected the Inuits way to hunt and overpriced food, makes it hard to get food. In the 1950s, the government said that “Inuit were going have to be modernized instead of kept in their traditional lifestyle”. This not only hurt the food supply of the Inuit, but is hurting traditions. One might also learn that how people assimilate by “modernizing” . Government believe that “modernizing a society” not only

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