Cultural assimilation

Rodriquez describes assimilation as a process by which a person apart of one culture adopts and familiarizes to the customs of another culture. His position on the subject of assimilation is more or less neutral. Rodriquez acknowledges assimilation to a degree but does not prefer the labeling that results with assimilation. “I am in favor of assimilation. I am not in favor of assimilation. I recognize assimilation” (91), says Rodriquez. He tolerates and accepts assimilation and makes a point…

that society as a whole become more educated on cultural competency. In the study of anthropology we have learned more about cultural universal, generalities, and uniqueness’s (Kottak & Kozaitis, 2012). As cultures become more integrated in our society, it becomes increasing important that we embrace our differences. Going forward, we will discuss several different models of cultural diversity. Assimilation refers to the merging of minority cultural groups and their customs within a society…

The purpose of this essay is to discover the effects of globalization and compare two mutually related concepts, (1) the concept of assimilation and the (2) notion of integration in the context of Canada’s policy of multiculturalism. Usually, the terms are associated with the movement of immigrants to a new country, and the social changes that occur as a result of the adjustment processes in the host country. As Favell (2005) writes, the two concepts have their roots in Durkheim’s functionalist…

Assimilation As a new immigrant in the US, I find the topic of assimilation very personal, because it relates not only to myself individually, but to my child as well. Assimilation is defined in the vocabulary as the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another. For a long time it was considered that the best strategy for becoming a full member of the society for a migrant to another country is assimilation. The distinctive cultural traits of immigrants determined…

In “Assimilation, American Style” Peter Salins distinguishes the differences between what assimilation genuinely means vs. the unreliable metaphorical meaning of “the melting pot". To give people an idea of the definition of “Assimilation, American Style," the term “the melting pot”: a society where many different types of people blend together as one. America being one of those countries that is often viewed as a melting pot, because in terms of ethnicities, religion, and different cultures,…

ethnical and cultural backgrounds interact with each other. Moreover, they also show how members of the same ethnic groups deal with each other and their own cultural identity. Both of these works show how the process of assimilation and their circumstances shape the way that different groups observe themselves and their cultural identity and the way they interact with each other which quite often indirectly leads to racism. In both works the audience can see that the process of assimilation of…

the Roman Empire. This assimilation is evident in today’s society with dishes that are a combination of diverse cultures that come together to provide a unique taste. The recipe for Fried Veal Escalope with Raisins is an example of cultures coming together to bring a unique taste to a person’s taste buds. The Romans loved their food, which became more luxurious and elaborate as their empire increased. The food of the earliest Romans was of the simplest kind (“Roman Empire & Colosseum”, 2015).…

Assimilation means multiple groups become mixed by obtaining each other’s social and psychological characteristics, such as how waves of immigrants have been assimilated into the American culture. Richard Rodriguez, the writer of “Blaxican’s and Other Reinvented Americans” is telling the readers about mixing race in America and belongings of immigration. Cultural assimilation in Rodriguez’s view is the processes by groups of cultures that comes from different countries and speak different…

One of the scholarly articles that was more thought provoking to me was Portes and Zhou work, titled The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants. While I have seen and experience this segmented assimilation, this is the first time I have read an article that articulates the situation so clearly. I have never thought of myself as a second-generation immigrant because I wasn’t born in the United States. However, according to the article, I am considered a second-generation…

Assimilation is when immigrants accept the dominant culture of the host country and start to attempt to integrate into mainstream society both economically and socially. Ethnic pluralism is “sustained ethnic differences and continued heterogeneity” (Martin N Marger, Race and Ethnic Relations). Transnationalism is a reduction in the importance of boarders in terms of social or economic importance according to the lecture. There is a stark difference between assimilation and ethnic pluralism.…