Concept - Assimilation

State: The process by which an individual or minority group loses its

original culture when absorbed into another culture; in the context of
colonialism, a policy of total integration of colonies into the colonizing
country.

Elaborate: Assimilation is when an individual or group ends up losing

their own culture by getting integrated into a different culture, sometimes in a
violent and forceful way.

Exemplify: The residential school system was designed to assimilate

Indigenous youth into mainstream European culture. Students at residential
schools were forced to leave their cultures behind in order to learn how to
speak English, participate in European culture and traditions, and be taught
that the way they were being raised at home was shameful.

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Illustrate:

This is a scene from one of my favorite childhood films, “The Seventh

Brother.” In the movie, a sweet little puppy named Tiny gets lost and adopted
by a family of rabbits. The rabbits do everything they can to get Tiny to act
like a rabbit, including eating a carrot filled diet!