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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. assimilate with some people to join or mix in with people and become accepted by them. It's easy for Karen to assimilate with new people. I want to assimilate rapidly with the other people in my class. 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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But is the assimilatory process fatally damaged as, for instance, American schools begin to recognize minority heroes and tell the stories of past discrimination? More consistent with Chu, Lind asserts that "the assimilatory power of American vernacular culture is so great that the focus of nativists and hopes of multiculturalists will almost certainly be confounded as today's so-called Third World immigrants become tomorrow's bland, conventional Middle Americans only incidentally named Ramirez and Wong" (81). Growing up in the midst of a white-dominated culture, Pecola is eventually driven mad under severe assimilatory pressure. |
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