Assimilation vs Indigenization - What's the difference?
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The act of assimilating]] or the state of being [[assimilate, assimilated.
* {{quote-book, year=1797, author=An English Lady, title=A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795,, chapter=, edition=
, passage=--France swarms with Gracchus's and Publicolas, who by imaginary assimilations of acts, which a change of manners has rendered different, fancy themselves more than equal to their prototypes.}}
* {{quote-news, year=1996, date=January 26, author=Bertha Husband, title=Double Identity, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=His work generally is full of assimilations and quotations from art that is not Mexican, and he's said, "Nationalism has nothing to do with my work.}}
The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
* {{quote-book, year=1908, author=Washington Gladden, title=The Church and Modern Life, chapter=, edition=
, passage=We have great need to be careful in these assimilations ; some kinds of food are rich but not easily digested.}}
(by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
(phonology) A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.
(sociology, cultural studies) The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
The fact of making something more native; transformation of some service, idea etc. to suit a local culture, especially through the use of more indigenous people in administration, employment etc.
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 709:
*:An early attempt at what might now be called indigenization occurred in one of the first forts which the Portuguese built on the West African coast, Fort St George of Elmina, in what is now Ghana.
The capability to manufacture a product, or supply a service independently within a country instead of relying on foreign manufactures or suppliers.
As nouns the difference between assimilation and indigenization
is that assimilation is the act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated while indigenization is the fact of making something more native; transformation of some service, idea etc. to suit a local culture, especially through the use of more indigenous people in administration, employment etc.assimilation
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