1. What do you know about assimilation?
Assimilation is the blending of two cultures which
are accompanied by characteristic loss of
indigenous culture to form a new culture.The process of assimilation was marked by the
development of the same attitudes which, while
sometimes emotional, aiming to achieve unity, or at least to achieve integration in the organization and action.
Examples :
a. A culture of China who came to Indonesia becomes a process of assimilation. Mixing of the two cultures so that each is a single unit. However, basically the culture brought from other countries will disappear.
b. Someone Indian citizen living in America and go to school. Thus, one to communicate and interact is speak the language used in the United States. However, the culture brought from India will
gradually disappear and mix in the new culture.
New culture that will continue to be used daily in the residence.
2. Why does United States referred as melting pot?
The United States is commonly referred to as a melting pot, a society in which people from different societies blend together into a single mass. In the other opinion, America is called the melting pot because there are people from everywhere around the world, they have different cultures, different customs, but when they come to America, they are one, one nation.
3. What are the relationships between assimilation to the interaction of cultures?
Basically assimilation is a form of interaction, in this case the interaction assimilative. Interactions that occur due to the process of learning the culture of the peoples concerned. Cultural assimilation by addition is when the subordinate group keeps most of its own heritage and also adopts some from the dominant group. In this type of cultural assimilation, the subordinate group remains distinguishable. Secondary structural assimilation refers to equal- status relationships between subordinate and dominant group members in the public sphere, such as relationships with people at work, in schools, in commercial transactions, at political meetings, and in places of public recreations.
