How Does Majority Culture Influence Minority Culture

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The attempt made by ethnic minorities, to adopt the customs and traditions of the majority community so that they become similar to the majority culture. Ethnic minorities absorbed into a majority culture through the process of integration.
Integration is taking the minorities into the main stream of Intergration so they can get access to the same opportunities that are available to the majority community. Assimilation is a giveing process on both the majority community, and minority communities. affected in the process and both become a part of the larger culture. In integration, it the minority community that tries to look like the majority community by giving up on some aspects of its culture.

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