What exactly is assimilation?

Question

What specific group of people originally immigrated to the United States and are now assimilated?

Wow Im pretty sure you know what I mean, just because I put one wrong word in. I know everyone immigrated to this country at one point, but I mean since we have been the United States, what is a good example of a group of people who immigrated to the United States and assimilated into the macroculture?

Goodness, I just wanted to know other people's opinions. Some people are such jerks. I just wanted different perspectives.

Answer 1

The Europeans first came to the US.

Assimilation means one or a group of people have fully assimilated into the new society. In other words, when in Rome, do as the Romans....adapt their ways and live by them.

Answer 2

~When? Since the United States didn't exist until, officially, 1789, I guess you refer to the folks who came after that. That would leave out the folks who came in by way of the land bridge before the Egyptians thought of building pyramids, whether they are presently assimilated, locked away in concentration camps called reservations or extinct. It would also eliminate they largely German and British "forefathers" and the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came (or who were shipped over involuntarily as slaves or criminals) before and during the Revolution.
By "originally", are you asking who were the first to come or who "originally" came from elsewhere. They came from all points of the globe at all times and continue to come. Are you referring to a cultural, ethnical, racial or national group or to individuals?The ones who melded into the evolving culture, accepted and became part of it and were accepted by it are assimilated. Those who try to retain their homeland roots and customs are not. Those who fall into both categories are partially assimilated but never can be completely so, depending on your definition of "assimilation". Take the question back to the drawing board and try to figure out what you are really trying to ask.

Answer 3

Think of some orange cordial (concentrate) - this is a minority group before it has assimilated e.g. Jewish people when they lived together in Israel.

Add the concentrate to a big glass of water (the water represents the US), it dilutes. The liquid is still orange but it has now mixed into society.e.g This shows that the Jewish people are still Jewish, but they integrated into society.

Over time, they will become more and more assimilated (as if adding more and more water to the same measure of orange cordial concentrate). This is how a religion / race can be lost.

Answer 4

Cultural assimilation is when people who emigrate to a new country give up their traditional cultural roles, language, clothing and ideas and adapt to the culture and langaguage of their new land. Europeans such as Irish, English, Norwegian, Swede, Spanish, Italian and French and many others including Africans as slaves and all have generally assimilated to form the American culture, although many people keep their cultural teaching, language, traditions at home, they adapt to American traditions such as celebrating Thanksgiving and Fourth of July, Speaking the common language in America English and wearing traditional Western clothing.

Answer 5

"Assimilation is taking on another culture as your own " I don't really agree with this statement. Assimilation is something a dominant culture would do to a minority group. In US most minority groups people are assimilated that is your whole melting pot ideology.
When people take the parts of another culture that they admire or that they see value in that is cultural borrowing not assimilation.

Answer 6

Assimilation is taking on another culture as your own and living it, and just about every group of people you can think of has assimilated our culture, as we are a country of immigrants.

Answer 7

Originally, the English, Irish, Scottish and Dutch were among the passengers on the Mayflower, i.e., that is what they listed as their origin on the manifest. Afterward, it was a vastness of every ethnic origin you can think of, and that is what makes up the United States.

Answer 8

there were many who have immigrated and assimilated....I'm not sure which were the originals, but probably those from Europe, and the answer is yes they did.

Answer 9

If you are a teacher, you know how to do research. If you need a definition, all you need is a dictionary. Do your own work.

Answer 10

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