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    men wanted to conquered the Amerindians in a form of mass assimilation. One of the forms of a mass assimilation is to put the Indians on the reservation and be able to control them. There are 64 reservation in the States‚ also the (BIE) or Bureau of Indian Education are responsible for the school educations for native students. The (AIM /ARM) there are the bullies of the police force who suppresses the native culture. The cultural assimilation of native Amerindian was to assimilate the natives and transform

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    1 Review (Chapters 1 – 4) Chapter 1: Studying Intercultural Communication · · · · · · · · Define imperative Describe all six imperatives and differentiate between each of them Define “global village” and “digital divide” Define demographics and assimilation Why is self-awareness so important? Define ethics; How does it apply to intercultural communication What are the important skills in becoming an ethical student of culture? Define cosmopolitan Chapter 2: Intercultural Communication · · · · ·

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    families. Many people during their stay within these institutions experienced both physical and emotional abuse‚ scaring them for the rest of their lives. Of the many tragedies that took place within these institutions the first being the assimilation of a culture. Many people were taught to be ashamed of their own cultures and belief system in order to promote the new one that was given to them. “It was the destruction of the Indians was the goal‚ and not the improvement.”[1] From the beginning

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    The Influence of culture on the life of people Culture has a profound effect on the journey of life of an individual as illustrated by Alison Goodman and Yota Krili-Kevans in their texts. In The Two Pearls of Wisdom written by Alison Goodman the effect of a culture of male dominance‚ cultural non-acceptance of human imperfections and cultural norms on people’s lives is highlighted. In To The Adopted Mother‚ written by Yota Krili-Kevans‚ the dilemmas faced by migrant populations in adapting to a new

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    Assimilation and accommodation are used independently and simultaneously all throughout life. Assimilation is a mental process using an environment so that it can placed in preexisting cognitive structures or an idea that incorporates new information into existing structures. An example of assimilation is an infant using a sucking schema from nursing to drink from a bottle. Accommodation is a mental

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    and Thesis The main point of the article is that while many groups of Indians might have assimilated to the modern world‚ there are still Indians who have been living the way that their ancestors have for thousands of years‚ desperately avoiding assimilation. Supporting Evidence The author‚ Joshua Hummer‚ supports the main idea through providing details of an expedition to find suspected isolated tribes within the Amazon‚ and then offering more background to the reader. After Hummer explains the

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    Big Trouble in Little China --It is more than just a film “Big Trouble in Little China” starts with a white American character called Jack Burton‚ who delivers his cargo to a small town and during some free time plays card games in a Chinese market. After beating everyone at the game‚ he is proposed a bet by his friend Wang‚ and wins. Wang‚ not having enough cash to pay himself‚ convinced Jack to pick up his girlfriend Miao Yin at the airport‚ promising after which he would pay what he owed.

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    potential for our world to become closer through political‚ social‚ and economic interaction if we allow it to do so. Sometimes we just don’t know exactly how to go about it. The aspect of globalization that has been occurring lately is more like assimilation than accommodation. Some have said that what is happening to the world is “Americanization”‚ which means that the world is becoming less of a mix of numerous different countries and cultures and more like one giant America. The beliefs‚ values

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    Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing The narrative constructs an eleven-year old English boy‚ Jerry‚ who is on holiday with his mother in the South of France. He encounters a group of older‚ native African-French boys swimming along the beach. When they disappeared by swimming through an underwater passageway to the other side of a large rock in the ocean‚ he feels left out and rejected. Jerry makes it his goal to swim through the passageway to prove to the older boys his manhood‚ even if it meant

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    time and effort from my part to learn how to speak‚ but I overcame that barrier. Therefore learning a new language can be difficult at first but it is not impossible. Another obstacle immigrants face when they move to a foreign country is the assimilation to a new culture. They are face with the challenge of new customs‚ traditions and a different way of life. Immigrants have to accept and adapt to this unknown conditions. This means making new relations‚ like meeting new people with different points

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