Assimilation
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A process that includes acculturation and deculturation and is very dangerous. While people’s culture is being erased, it is being forcefully, gradually or covertly replaced with the dominant culture. It often involves replacing religions, languages, knowledge, laws and race. The biological process of race replacement is the highest form of assimilation.
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