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https://voxeu.org/article/immigrants-and-cultural-assimilation

immigration has become a highly politicized issue, leaving many immigrants feeling pressured to assimilate into the dominant U.S. culture

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https://publicpolicy.stanford.edu/news/what-history-tells-us-about-assimilation-immigrants

cultural assimilation relating to immigration is still a very present issue

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This paper examines the influence of Hispanic-American ethnicity on the family-related and nature-related benefits of outdoor recreation activity. Gordon's ethnic assimilation theory is used as a conceptual framework to examine patterns of Anglo-conformity in perceived recreation benefits, and to look for deviations in these patterns suggestive of selective acculturation. Data were collected through a telephone survey of 995 households in central and southern California. Hispanic respondents were classified as "least-acculturated," "bicultural," or "most-acculturated" based on their comprehension and use of Spanish vs. English. These three groups were compared to Anglo-Americans who had very low comprehension of Spanish. A strong Anglo-conformity pattern was found in the perceived importance of nature-related benefits from outdoor recreation participation. The more assimilated the Hispanic respondents, the more similar they were to Anglos in the importance of these benefits. This indicated that varying levels of assimilation are an important source of diversity within ethnic groups. Some support was found for the proposition that the Hispanic cultural value on "familism" is less prone to assimilation effects, as reflected in the greater importance that the bicultural Hispanic group placed on family-related recreation benefits compared to Anglos and the least-assimilated Hispanics.

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The Effect of Cultural Assimilation on the Importance of Family-Related and Nature-Related Recreation among Hispanic Americans

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This paper examines the influence of Hispanic-American ethnicity on the family-related and nature-related benefits of outdoor recreation activity. Gordon's ethnic assimilation theory is used as a conceptual framework to examine patterns of Anglo-conformity in perceived recreation benefits, and to look for deviations in these patterns suggestive of selective acculturation.

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54 Pages Posted: 30 May 2008

There are 2 versions of this paper

Date Written: August 2007

Abstract

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion, benefited from enhanced assimilation, lower cultural diversity and, thus, more intense accumulation of society-specific human capital, enabling them to flourish in the technological paradigm that characterized the agricultural stage of development. The lack of cultural diffusion and its manifestation in cultural rigidity, however, diminished the ability of these societies to adapt to a new technological paradigm, which delayed their industrialization and, thereby, their take-off to a state of sustained economic growth. The theory contributes to the understanding of the advent of divergence and overtaking in the process of long-run development, attributing the dominance of some societies within a given technological regime to a superior operation of cultural assimilation, while the success of others in the switch between technological regimes to a higher frequency of cultural diffusion and the beneficial effect of diversity on the adaptability of society to a changing technological environment. Thus, in contrast to the cultural and institutional hypotheses, which posit a hierarchy of cultural and institutional attributes in terms of their conduciveness to innovation and their ability in fostering industrialization, the proposed theory suggests that the desirable degree of the relative prevalence of cultural assimilation versus cultural diffusion varies according to the stage of development. Enhanced cultural assimilation is optimal within a given stage of development, but is detrimental for the transition between technological regimes. Therefore, while cultural traits themselves do not necessarily have a differential effect on the process of development, it is the variation in the relative strengths of the forces of cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion, which together determine the heterogeneity of these traits, that is instrumental for comparative economic development.

Keywords: cultural assimilation, cultural diffusion, cultural diversity, geography

JEL Classification: O11, O13, O14, O31, O33, O41, O43

Ashraf, Quamrul H. and Galor, Oded, Cultural Assimilation, Cultural Diffusion and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations (August 2007). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP6444, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1138557

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cultural diffusion and the origin of the wealth of nations

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Cultural Assimilation, Cultural Diffusion and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

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54 Pages Posted: 30 May 2008 There are 2 versions of this paper Date Written: August 2007 This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe.

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The Aboriginal peoples of Australia where made to assimilate to colonialism, which caused widespread depression and death among these peoples.

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The Aboriginal peoples of Australia where made to assimilate to colonialism, which caused widespread depression and death among these peoples.

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Forced assimilation is  one of the main tactics used in Neo-Colonialism.

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Forced assimilation is  one of the main tactics used in Neo-Colonialism.

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The Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island were forced to assimilate to colonial culture.

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The Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island were forced to assimilate to colonial culture.

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the process of adopting the language and culture of a dominant social group or nation, or the state of being socially integrated into the culture of the dominant group in a society
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/assimilation

The process of assimilating involves taking on the traits of the dominant culture to such a degree that the assimilating group becomes socially indistinguishable from other members of the society
https://www.britannica.com/topic/assimilation-society