Cultural assimilation

process in which a group or culture comes to resemble another group

Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture assimilates the values, behaviors, and beliefs the society's majority group.

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  • Arguments for inclusion produce the very exclusions they are meant to cure. ... The question that cannot be uttered is, just how different can these different folks be and still be recognized as just like everyone else?
    • Deborah Britzman, (2012). Queer Pedagogy and Its Strange Techniques. Counterpoints. Vol. 367, Sexualities in Education.
  • Assimilationist politics, ... according to its critics, looks to expand the definition of normal to include lesbians and gays, rather than attacking and undermining the very processes by which (some) subjects become normalized and others marginalized.
    • Susanne Luhmann. (1998). Queering/Querying Pedagogy? Or, Pedagogy Is a Pretty Queer Thing. In W. F. Pinar (Ed.), Queer theory in Education, p. 122
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