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Examples Of Forced Assimilation In Native American Culture

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At least one example of forced assimilation can be found with in both the Native American culture and the girls raised by wolves’ culture. The move from their homes to go to their new cultures place of liking. Being removed from there culture proved to be difficult. Humans or the civil people ostracize both cultures for being unruly and intolerable to there liking. Being ostracized as a species leaves the beloved culture with an overwhelming fate. Following there host culture gives them hope, and a place in the world. Forced assimilation affected the Native Americans and the girls at St. Lucy 's adversely despite both cultures being different because being removed from their natural origins created culture shock, both species had been ostracized

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