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Assimilation could also involve the so-called additive acculturation wherein, instead of replacing the ancestral culture, an individual expands their existing cultural repertoire. Throughout history there have been different forms of cultural assimilation examples of types of acculturation include voluntary and involuntary assimilation. A conceptualization describes cultural assimilation as similar to acculturation while another merely considers the former as one of the latter's phases.

Some types of cultural assimilation resemble acculturation in which a minority group or culture completely assimilates into the dominant culture in which defining characteristics of the minority culture are less obverse or outright disappear while in other types of cultural assimilation such as cultural integration mostly found in multicultural communities, a minority group within a given society adopts aspects of the dominant culture through either cultural diffusion or for practical reason like adapting to another society's social norms while retaining their original culture. There are different forms of cultural assimilation. ( June 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Д¬ultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.

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