11 Facts About Cultural assimilation

Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.

Different types of cultural assimilation include full assimilation and forced assimilation; full assimilation being the most prevalent of the two, as it occurs spontaneously.

Full assimilation occurs when members of a society become indistinguishable from those of the dominant group in society.

Cultural assimilation can happen either spontaneously or forcibly, the latter when more dominant cultures use various means aimed at forced assimilation.

Whether via colonialism or within one nation, methods of forced assimilation are often unsustainable, leading to revolts and collapses of power to maintain control over cultural norms.

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An example of voluntary cultural assimilation would be during the Spanish Inquisition when Jews and Muslims accepted the Roman Catholic Church as their religion, meanwhile, in private, many people still practiced their traditional religions.

Term "Cultural assimilation" is often used with regard to not only indigenous groups but immigrants settled in a new land.

The current definition of assimilation is usually used to refer to immigrants, but in multiculturalism, cultural assimilation can happen all over the world and within varying social contexts and is not limited to specific areas.

Cultural assimilation argued that those territories have very tiny isolated populations and proposed to integrate them into the larger Brazilian society.

Genetic Cultural assimilation commenced early and continued – the 1961 New Zealand census classified only 62.

In contrast to Cultural assimilation, integration aims to preserve the roots of a minority society while still allowing for smooth coexistence with the dominant culture.