Assimilation

Question 1

What is assimilation?

Answer 1

The process by which the characteristics of members of immigrant groups and host societies come to resemble one another

Question 2

Ethnicity Def

Answer 2

Differentiates people based on their cultural differences

Question 3

Race Def

Answer 3

Differentiates people based on their physical characteristics

Question 4

Culture Def

Answer 4

Way of life, beliefs, values and practices. Passed on through learning and understanding.

Question 5

Internal Factors of Assimilation

Answer 5

Length of residence
Language Uptake
Degree of uptake
Desire to maintain cultural identity
Endogamous marriages

Question 6

External Factors of Assimilation

Answer 6

Government Policy
Attitude of receiving society

Question 7

Indicators of cultural assimilation

Answer 7

Socio economic status of migrants compared to indigenous population

Question 8

“Otherness”

Answer 8

Willingness of both the receiving society and the migrant to embrace culture.

Question 9

Factors affecting ‘otherness’

Answer 9

Physical Apperance and clothing
Belief systems or practices

Question 10

Jecularism (W)

Answer 10

Religion should be private and not interfere with worldly affairs

Question 11

Moral Relativism (W)

Answer 11

No absolute values

Question 12

Orthodoxy (W)

Answer 12

Doesn’t require evidence

Question 13

Theocracy (I)

Answer 13

Religious authority prevails over political

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Fundamentalism (I)

Answer 14

Principles are recognized as essential truths and have unchallengeable authority

Question 15

Orthoproxy (I)

Answer 15

Religion requires correct behaviour