Assimilation

Assimilation or Assimilate may refer to:

Culture

• Cultural assimilation, the process whereby a minority group gradually adapts to the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture and customs
  • Language shift, also known as language assimilation, the progressive process whereby a speech community of a language shifts to speaking another language
  • Cultural assimilation of Native Americans in the United States
  • Jewish assimilation refers to the gradual cultural assimilation and social integration of Jews in their surrounding culture
  • Religious assimilation refers to the adoption of a majority or dominant culture's religious practices and beliefs by a minority or subordinate culture
• Assimilation effect, a frequently observed bias in social cognition

• Assimilation (French colonial), an ideological basis of French colonial policy in the 19th and 20th centuries

Science

• Assimilation (biology) the conversion of nutrient into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption
• Assimilation (phonology), a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
• Data assimilation, updating a numerical model with observed data
• Assimilation (psychology), incorporation of new concepts into existing schemes
• Assimilation (geology), incorporation of external materials into a batch of magma during igneous differentiation

Media

• Assimilation (album), a 2001 album by Deliverance
• Assimilation (Star Trek), fictional process used by the Borg race
• Assimilate, a 2019 sci-fi horror film
• Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, a 2013 non-fiction book

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