English 251-01
Mr. Mageo
08 November 2013
Tossed Salad: One Nation above All What is Cultural Assimilation? Cultural assimilation is defined as interpenetration and fusion of ethnic minorities into the dominant culture. In other cases, cultural assimilation perhaps that immigrants and members of ethnic group are expected to come to resemble the majority groups in terms of norms, values, and behaviors. Cultural assimilation is where majority group does not tolerated different ethnic or racial identities In general; cultural assimilation adopts the cultural norms and values of the dominant group such as learning the language of the most country or acquiring citizenship. Therefore, immigrants discard their own traditions and beliefs and embrace the culture an identity of their new country. Cultural assimilation is basically a process by which a society of people is observed into a majority of people. During this process, the minority group often loses its cultural traditions language, foods, and even its major characteristics. Hence, cultural assimilation is when you blend or assimilate into the surrounding culture. It is when you adopt a culture as part of your own. As culture being adapted to your own society, a world of assimilation involves. "American sociologists Niton Gordon have found out that there are three models of assimilation in the United States: Anglo conformity, melting pot and minority group has to accept the norms and values of superior groups. Melting pot describes as a society in which different ethnic groups from a new cultural play by Isarael Zangwill, which became a hit on Broadway in 1908. Finally, cultural pluralism described as a metaphor to the salad bowl ethnic and immigrant group retain to their own cultural identity. However, the plurality of religious traditions and cultures has come to characterize every part if the world today. "Pluralism is not diversity alone, but the energetic engagement diversity" (Eck 1)