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2 unusual facts about cultural assimilation


Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color

Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color (ISBN 0814103774) is a book by Washington State University Regents Professor (English) Victor Villanueva speaking of the troubles of assimilation due to his Puerto Rican heritage.

Milton Gordon

He is most noted for having devised a theory on the Seven Stages of Assimilation.


Edmund Barton

The quotation, which spread by email and social networks, includes a photograph of Barton and an extract from a speech which argues for equal treatment of immigrants conditional on their cultural assimilation, the loyalty to the Flag of Australia and the exclusive adoption of the English language in Australia.

Ethnic conflict

John Coakley, for example, has developed a typology of the methods of conflict resolution that have been employed by states, which he lists as: indigenization, accommodation, assimilation, acculturation, population transfer, boundary alteration, genocide and ethnic suicide.

Islam in Korea

Some assimilation into Buddhism and Shamanism took place, owing to Korea's geographical isolation from the Muslim world.

La solidaridad

In order to find a venue where the desire of the Propaganda Movement towards achieving assimilation can be expressed, La Solidaridad was established.

Ron Brunton

In addition, he enunciated the view that the "secret women's business" of the Ngarrindjeri women during the Hindmarsh Island bridge controversy was a fabrication, and came to the defence of the murdered Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn who called on Muslim immigrants to assimilate into Dutch society and culture.

Sinhalisation

From a sociological point of view it could mean the assimilation of ethno cultural minorities in Sri Lanka such as the Sri Lankan Tamils, Colombo Chetties and indigenous Veddas into the majority Sinhalese identity.


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