Various hypotheses entailed by this investigation are set forth as we discuss possible functional and evolutionary implications of the broad assimilation of SIDER elements.
The examples you give are disingenuous: the Swiss and French authorities arguably have a broader political aim than assimilation and there is a clear risk that the fear or distrust of otherness is influencing those policies.
One of the great catastrophes of the residential schools, Trombley says, was that the children who went through them were divorced from their native cultures and yet were never adequately prepared for assimilation into broader Canadian culture, which had been the whole point.
The music they create might include elements of traditional Israeli music, but only as one hue on a broader palette, mostly unconcerned with assimilation.
Finally, the organizational pressures and resource constraints, combined with practitioners' assimilation of the broader efficiency agenda were central factors shaping referral.
In particular, I admire the resilience of a community that seeks to maintain its distinctiveness and recognises, quite rightly, that assimilation into the broader culture would mean the gradual dilution, and the eventual extinction, of its own way of life.
It follows that integration processes in some or all domains may relate to one sub-section of society rather than a broader engagement; that is, 'segmented assimilation' (Zhou, 1997).
China has sharply scaled back, and restricted, the teaching of languages spoken by ethnic minorities in its vast western regions in recent years, promoting instruction in Chinese instead as part of a broad push to encourage the assimilation of Tibetans, Uighurs and other ethnic minorities into the dominant ethnic Han culture.
Understanding the ability for populations to induce pesticide tolerance and develop constitutive tolerance through the process of genetic assimilation may have broad conservation implications.
American culture, of course, was formed in part over the past two centuries by the assimilation of immigrants from a broad range of nations — first mostly European but later a broader diaspora.
