Cultural Assimilation can be used in many circumstances and its not a good thing because your pulling out your own culture just to fit in. There are many reasons as to why students try to assimilate most of the reasons are because people want to fit in and not be judged. You leave most of your traditional life behind including your clothes, food, and, language. This was especially bad earlier in American history where they forced students to speak English and be more "American". Some examples of these forced assimilation is when they forced Native Americans to become more westernized by sending children at a boarding school at a young age to assimilate them. As well as that many people became ashamed to speak their native language an example being the great grandfather of McCoy who was ashamed of his original language. People really shouldn't give up their own culture just to assimilate because you are losing your identity. You can combat cultural assimilation by going to websites which help with cultural assimilation and not losing your identity.
This shows an image of Native American students who were in the American education system affected by cultural assimilation.
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