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Assimilation vs Acculturation
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Suarez-Orozco Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Assimilation but Were Afraid to Ask
Immigration before is not as it is now. Before immigrants were European and shared similar cultures. Today, however, this is not the case. Many immigrants are now people of color specifically those of Latin American and Asian decent. They cannot force the same assimilative processes on people of color because their cultures are not the same. -
Herbert Gans, Acculturation, Assimilation and Mobility
The source identifies whether people are assimilating or acculturating for intentional or non-intentional purposes. Gans includes that some assimilation is intentional because it is advantageous to the immigrant. One of the intentional assimilative processes is learning English. -
Jilani, Muslim American Identity under Siege: Muslim Students' Perspective of American High Schools
This source explains Muslim students lives in xenophobic cultures. After 9/11, these students have had to go through dramatic assimilative processes in order to feel safe in America. Most of them must choose to remove themselves from their culture and religon or face harassment.
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Hickey, One of these Things is not like the others: Assimilation, Acculturation, and Education.
This source informs education instructors on how to create a safer and happier environment for people of color. In this source, assimilation creates harsh environments for people of color and they tend to struggle in educational environments due to harassment from peers and instructors.