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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Assimilation

Assimilation: The practice of making other races more white. It is used in relation to the Indians. Whites believed that they were similar enough that they could be converted to Christians and made to be more white like the Europeans.

Posted by Chuck Meyer at 10:06 PM

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