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acculturation See ASSIMILATION.
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	LOOKING IN: Vouchers; Hope For Continuity ; LOOKING IN: Vouchers; Hope For Continuity SAMUEL HELLMAN Today's American Jews who worry about the Jewish future see assimilation, the process in which Jews are absorbed by and become indistinguishable from the larger essentially Christian host... Read more
	'BLACK. WHITE.' GETS GRITTY ON RACE.(News) ; ...Brian Sparks to grump, Why don't they dress like Aunt Jemima on the syrup bottle and get it over with? The Sparks don't see assimilation as an intriguing exercise; they feel like they've spent their whole lives assimilating to white-dominated culture. This... Read more
	Workforce diversity: PC's final frontier? (political correctness) (Demystifying Multiculturalism) (Cover Story) ; ...such as Elsie Cross, R. Roosevelt Thomas (Beyond Race and Gender), and Ann Morrison (The Glass Ceiling, The New Leaders)--see assimilation as a cover for white male domination. Consultants' proposals for expensive cultural audits and subsequent changes in formal... Read more
	A journey to the past ; ...especially in Kurdistan, "is a hopeful message," he says. And he sees a possible lesson for American Jews in his book. "I see assimilation as the trade-off we [Jews] make for living in the U.S.," he says, "but we can still hold on to part of our heritage," in... Read more
	Conversion, identity, and the Indian missionary.(Reverend Samson Occom ) ; ...in order to promote land grabs and support military action against Indians led British Americans of the next century to see assimilation as a failure and even an impossibility. To many British Americans of the eighteenth century, differences between Indians... Read more
	THE RABBI'S TURN: Israel faces a raging sea ; ...can be done, so let us assimilate. People like this condemn the actions of others who want to wage a battle. They do not see assimilation as a problem. They will condemn and Jew who does. Some of their best friends are intermarried. They consider a day-school... Read more
	Seeking the Christian tutelage: agency and culture in Chinese immigrants' conversion to Christianity. ; ...deployment of their own cultural categories, symbols, and practices. Agency as the conceptual link allows researchers to see assimilation as well as ethnic identification in a new light -- they are different aspects of the same process of immigrants' social... Read more
	January-February 2004: tenth anniversary issue.(Editorial) ; ...Cohen goes back to his light-hearted account of Christian fundamentalism and finds much less to laugh about. Other writers see assimilation as a more ambiguous trend. Andrew Holleran revisits the gay ghetto be observed at Harvard ten years ago and wonders if... Read more
	Malaysians in soul and spirit ; ...are living in their own shells, they don't move out, they don't assimilate. Ang: It's not that they don't assimilate. You see, assimilation is not something they relate to. It has to be inculcated from young. Andrea: Part of the reason is vernacular schools... Read more

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