Assimilation

//əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən//

"Assimilation" in a Sentence (12 examples)

To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; as it is, the mere act of purchasing them is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.

Mountain and desert Berbers resisted assimilation.

Algerians don't want cultural assimilation with Western nations.

Instead of choosing between tolerance and assimilation, what we really need are respect and acceptance of differences.

The Jews who are doing well in America have largely shed every last trapping of Jewishness for assimilation into goy culture.

Many Russian Jews speak Russian today instead of Yiddish due to assimilation under the Soviet Union.

--France swarms with Gracchus's and Publicolas, who by imaginary assimilations of acts, which a change of manners has rendered different, fancy themselves more than equal to their prototypes.

His work generally is full of assimilations and quotations from art that is not Mexican, and he's said, "Nationalism has nothing to do with my work.

We have great need to be careful in these assimilations; some kinds of food are rich but not easily digested.

Hence, rather than being the result of mishearing and assimilation, the application of Hobson-Jobson to the Muharram was intentionally disparaging.

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After centuries of British cultural assimilation, a majority of Irish now speak English instead of Irish.

Assimilation was one of the words they used for Indians becoming white in order to survive, in order that they might not be killed for being Indians.

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