It expects its newcomers, over time, to assimilate completely, to become "British".
For all its limitations, the Chinese in Malaysia think themselves better off than in neighbouring Thailand or Indonesia, where they had to assimilate completely.
In the Japanese case, it was argued that decisions about membership or belonging have been subordinated to the traditional nation-state narrative: migrants of Japanese descent were framed as non-Japanese nationals expected to assimilate completely into mainstream Japanese society without being granted equal rights.
We do not need to force them to assimilate completely and leave behind the differences of their cultures and languages.
"Isolation in paradise" is the exile's lot, Josef Skvorecky warns us in "Two Murders in My Double Life": unable to leave his native country completely, he cannot assimilate entirely to his adopted one.
Instead, it is that subjects and techniques that once seemed daring and off-limits have been assimilated so completely that they have become commonplace.
It welcomes and assimilates all new arrivals.
"I see myself as completely assimilated.
Bread and pastry, though nonexistent in traditional Japanese kitchens, are now completely assimilated.
Nevertheless, the Cumans did not become completely assimilated into Hungarian society for centuries.
Managers must model and enforce them until they are completely assimilated.
