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What is an assimilation?

What is an assimilation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
  2. The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
  3. (by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
  4. (phonology) A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.
  5. (sociology, cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
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And this, in turn, is nothing less than one of the most thoroughgoing instances of assimilation and reconsolidation in twentieth-century America.
Since acculturation is ultimately a personal choice, degrees of assimilation will vary from individual to individual.
The reason we say we need that critical mass is the issue around assimilation.
Bee pollen is used to improve digestive assimilation as well as athletic performance.
These immigrant churches weathered acculturation and assimilation better than other immigrant institutions.
But assimilation and acculturation usually mean the erosion of the cultural and social life of the immigrant group.

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