Assimilation

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Assimilation or Assimilate may refer to:

Culture

  • Cultural assimilation, the process whereby a minority group gradually adapts to the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture and customs
    • Language shift, also known as language assimilation, the progressive process whereby a speech community of a language shifts to speaking another language
    • Cultural assimilation of Native Americans in the United States
    • Jewish assimilation refers to the gradual cultural assimilation and social integration of Jews in their surrounding culture
    • Religious assimilation refers to the adoption of a majority or dominant culture's religious practices and beliefs by a minority or subordinate culture
  • Assimilation effect, a frequently observed bias in social cognition
  • Assimilation (French colonial)
    , an ideological basis of French colonial policy in the 19th and 20th centuries

Science

  • Assimilation (biology) the conversion of nutrient into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption
  • Assimilation (phonology), a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
  • Data assimilation, updating a numerical model with observed data
  • Assimilation (psychology)
    , incorporation of new concepts into existing schemes
  • Assimilation (geology), incorporation of external materials into a batch of magma during igneous differentiation

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