Assimilation

Assimilation

Where an ethnic group loses distinctiveness and becomes absorbed into a majority culture. Some sociologists suggest that the process can create a new culture resulting from the fusion of the cultures of different ethnic groups into a new blend, but the term integration is usually chosen by sociologists to suggest this blending of divergent cultures. The concept of assimilation is useful when discussing the persistence of minority cultures within host societies.

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