What is Assimilation

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The process through which individuals and groups conform to dominant practices or behaviors. Learn more in: Correct Pronunciation of Student Names: A Foundation for Language Learning

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Responding to the physical environment in accordance with existing cognitive structures. Assimilation refers to a kind of matching between the cognitive structures and the physical environment. Assimilation can be roughly equated with recognition or knowing. Learn more in: The Cognitive Emotional Behavioral and Physical Effects of Cartoons on Children

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A strategy to acculturate where an individual or group from a minority culture fully adopts the practices and values of the dominant culture without retaining the practices and values of the original culture. Learn more in: Increasing Awareness: Cultural Food Experiences of International Students in Canada

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the process of adapting or incorporation the culture of the dominant group or nation. Learn more in: Language Loss: Implications for Latinx Cultural Identity

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Based on the belief that new comers must adhere to the values, beliefs, behaviors, and lifestyle of mainstream America. Learn more in: Supporting Immigrant Children in College and Career Readiness: Implications for Teachers and School Counselors

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The unconscious and/or involuntary development of non-native cultural interaction norms. Learn more in: Buddhist Detachment as a Conceptual Point of Entry into Teaching Sociopolitically-Located Multicultural Education Online

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The process whereby a minority group gradually adapts to the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture. Learn more in: Counseling Chinese Communities in Malaysia: The Challenges and Needs in Mental Health Service Deliverance

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A process whereby an individual changes following exposure to a different culture. In assimilation, individuals of differing heritages and cultures acquire the basic attitudes, habits, and way of life of the dominant culture. Learn more in: Dysphagia Management in Culturally-Linguistically Diverse Populations

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A subtractive adjustment process whereby a culturally, ethnically, or linguistically diverse individual elects to reject part or all of the heritage language, culture, or ethnicity in order to fit in with members of the macro society. Learn more in: Facilitating Linguistic and Academic Success for Newcomer English Language Learners: Essential Knowledge for Educators of Refugees

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Passive adoption of a new practice or behaviour, generally resulting from participating in activities where such behaviour is used or is expected. Learn more in: Evaluation of a Migration to Open Source Software

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Understanding a task or a stimulus through the application of the existing categories of knowledge. It involves using existing knowledge in new experience in order to respond to a particular task or stimulus, incorporating the new experience into that existing knowledge. Learn more in: Challenges of Training Motor Vehicle Mechanics for Changing World Contexts and Emergent Working Conditions: Cases of Kenya and Australia

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Changes in existing ways of thinking that are in response to encounters with new stimuli or events by integrating a new object into an old schema. Learn more in: Piaget's Developmental Stages