applied for non-immigrant visa like tourist/visitor’s visa to travel to the United States of America‚ and you received the blue letter (Visa refusal) from your consular officer after your interview; this indicates your application was refused under Section 214(b) in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). You were unable to sufficiently prove to the consular officer that you’re eligible for the nonimmigrant visa category you applied for‚ or you didn’t overcome the presumption of immigrant intent by
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what happens for many immigrants who come to the United States and decide to assimilate. They have to try to fit in‚ and in doing so they tend to lose some of their own culture. But is this a good thing? Should they try and fit into this new culture? The simple answer is yes. Immigrants should assimilate and become a part of the United States economically‚ culturally‚ and civically. While expecting immigrants to assimilate may seem harsh‚ one must understand what assimilation is before jumping to
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Multiculturalism was referred to in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms adopted in 1982 (Leung. 2011). Multiculturalism is part of the four state ideologies. The four ideologies are as follows: multiculturalism ideology‚ civic ideology‚ assimilation ideology‚ and ethnist ideology. The multiculturalism ideology is the one that supports and recognizes people of diversity. Civic ideology subscribes to multiculturalism but does not support state funding to promote
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2.1 Introduction 8 2.2 Literature Review 8 2.3 Definition of culture 9 2.4 Cultural theory 11 2.4.1 Cultural fit 11 2.5 Acculturation 12 2.5.1 Modes of Acculturation 13 2.5.2 Models of Acculturation 16 2.6 Cultural Assimilation 17 2.6.1 Cultural differences and Challenges 18 2.6.2 Direct effects of diversity 20 2.6.3 Cultural and attitudinal diversity 21 2.7 Organizational culture 24 2.7.1 Subcultures 31 2.7.2 Organizational climate and change
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According to Healey’s (2013) textbook‚ “Race‚ Ethnicity‚ Gender‚ and Class”‚ cultural assimilation is best defined as a process that an individual in a minority group or a minority group undergoes when they begin to take in the culture of the dominant group (pg. 47). Their language and/or culture become similar to other groups‚ causing differences between groups to decrease (pg. 43). This process includes things like‚ having to adopt different values‚ changing the spelling of one’s name‚ and even
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Assimilation into a Society The issue at hand is in regards to assimilation into society. The argument is whether or not assimilation into society is possible to avoid. Assimilation is to absorb or join a culture. Many people argue that doing so can lead to losing one’s own culture. Cultures will no longer passed on from generation to generation‚ but now fully integrated into the current culture. The work of authors Richard Rodriguez‚ Tomas Rivera‚ Ramon Saldivar‚ and Victor Villanueva Junior will
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The positive side of Immigrations Many people from all over the world move to America and this number of immigrants in the America has steadily grown. Shockingly‚ “the number of immigrants living in U.S. increased by 2.4 million” (A Nation of Immigrants). They are moving to United State because of the amenities that it has. They leave everything behind for that “American dream”. Those dreamers come to America looking for new opportunities‚ freedom‚ better lifestyles‚ etc. They are looking for the
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should indeed be treated as a separate entity. They felt that assimilation could hurt minority cultures by stripping away their distinctive features. (McDonald‚ 2007). Although they felt this way‚ they also warned that forcing
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two first-generation immigrants from India to the U.S‚ and the cultural conflicts between their American-born children and them. As a spectator‚ I do believe that both cultures are privileged in different parts of the books‚ and the influences on both generation of acculturation and assimilation in this book also need dialectic discussion. But the author ‚as I think‚ cares more about Hindu culture and tends to foreground it. The life for the first-generation immigrants is very hard. They
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Prime Minister John Howard said‚ “all Australian’s have the right to express culture‚ beliefs and participate in National interests” 1. This essay raises the question about whether assimilation will create a tolerant Australia. Or is it a case of how long does a free society have to tolerate the intolerable? Assimilation by definition‚ is “the acceptance of a minority population into a majority population on the condition that the minority takes on the values and norms of the dominant group”2. It
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