... first impression when taking her aunts "dark purple dress- as an incentive to wear something similar? That notion of trying to blend in is soon pushed aside through Aunt Katrina's inquiry to wear "something lively, something bright."" (98) After all is Helga "a foreigner, and different. You must have bright things to set you off the color of your lovely brown skin. Striking things, exotic ... for beauty, her grace and pride. The "house went [often] unwept and undusted-, she and the children are just as frequently "unwashed [and] untidy."" (151) Helga is finally able to come to terms wit...

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... by lowering differences in the group, that might result in hatred and violence. Assimilation is an aspect of the functionalist perspective. There are many levels of it including psychological, biological, structural, and cultural stages. Cultural assimilation, also known as acculturation, is when members of an ethnic group use the dominant group traits as their own such as language, values, religion, dress and preference ... of categories of people by race, ethnicity, class, gender, and/or religion. This exists when specific ethnic groups are set apart from the dominant group, and have u...

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