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assimilate someone or something into something to cause someone or something to be absorbed into something. (As when a person or thing joins a group.) We sought to assimilate Arnold into the community. The manager had to assimilate the new policies into the list of current ones. They assimilated themselves into the general population. See also: assimilate How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This is the subject of a seminal study by academician Hans Werner (Professor of History, University of Winnipeg) who found that those ethnic Germans settling in Winnipeg, Canada expected to have to learn a new language, adjust to different customs, and generally assimilate into an society and culture unlike that with which they had drown up. Despite efforts of missionaries to make them assimilate into European culture, the Maori managed to establish capitalist enterprises without giving up their belief system. Latino American Catholics at a Crossroads" (February) suggests it would be a mistake to assume Latinos will assimilate into the church as did previous immigrants. |
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