Cultural Assimilation
According to The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia, cultural assimilation is a process by which members of an ethnic minority group lose cultural characteristics that separate them from the main cultural group (Cultural pp).
In the September 22, 2000 issue of Daedalus, Dorothy Steele writes that the assimilation of millions of immigrants into one society is what defines America, however in the shadows, millions of nonimmigrant minorities, such as African-Americans, Native American Indians, and Latinos, struggle within the mainstream of society (Steele pp). The diversity of immigrants reveals America as a haven for religious, cultural, and political difference, yet at the same time there is an ongoing struggle with difference that is not related to religion or cultural values but a difference in social, racial and ethnic status (Steele pp). The societal settings that are central to a group's movement into American mainstream life, such as schools and workplaces, are experienced differently by America's nonimmigrant minorities than by majority group members (Steele pp).
Steele argues that the failure to include millions of nonimmigrant minorities into the mainstream society stems in large part from a pervasive "downward social constitution' of these groups by the majority culture, not from individual racism (Steele pp). This results in many African-Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos being persistently devalued and their prospects and opportunities limited or neglected (Steele...
Stronger connections with family and other persons from the same country are also formed (Lee). Another gain for immigrants can be experienced from partly assimilating with the mainstream of American culture, even while retaining what is best of the original culture. What results is then a combination of the original and the new culture in order to form something new. This new culture then becomes part of the "melting pot"
Cultural belief can shape and integrate "the expectations that pattern the relationships among a social structures constituent and statuses and roles" (Schooler, 1996:323). Conclusions Culture includes the attitudes, values and beliefs an individual or group adopt and consider normal in everyday society. Within and given society, differences in culture exist, and these differences impact human relations. Also within a society of different cultures, assimilation occurs, where ethnic groups adopt what are
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