minorities in the US

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Minorities in the United States

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Definition of assimilation

Assimilation is defined as a process by which an individual or a group acquires the attitudes and sentiments of other individuals or groups and then incorporates their history and experience to achieve a similar cultural life (Park Burgess , 1921

Early American ancestors who were against assimilation in the country foresaw that immigrants to the country would throw away

their cultural identities and the next generations would not retain those cultural identities . It was debated that assimilation could result to a similar nature of national identity in which immigrants could achieve both social and economic benefits by integrating themselves into the mainstream of the American culture (Barvosa-Carter

Immigrants are required to take an identity of an Anglo-Saxon Protestant , white and monolingual English language speaker when integrating immigrants on the assimilationist model . However assimilation disregarded the important distinction between a national identity and an ethnic identity . Assimilationists have influenced the American political culture with a false view that the growing cultural diversity among immigrants affects their loyalty to the country (Barvosa-Carter

Furthermore , an assimilationist approach adopts the notion that successful integration of immigrants in the country must remove all ethnic identities among immigrants (Barvosa-Carter

Definition of multiculturalism

Multiculturalism is also called ethnic federalism because it is the official acknowledgment of unique , fundamentally fixed ethnic individuals and the sharing...