Assimilation

Assimilation is the act of being adopted into a nationality of which you were not born into in the first place. Assimilation is when you take in other cultures as if they were your own for example the music, food, style and ideas.

In the play everyone shows assimilation, all the children do when they talk about wanting to be rich and have money and all these nice things like white families do. Beneath Shows assimilation when she is dating men because she goes out with white men and tries to search for money. Walter shows assimilation when he talks about wanting to own a liquor shop because he wants to be successful just like white men.

The play shows assimilation as a strength and a weakness, it's a strength because they want to succeed and they want what is the best for them and their families. But it's a weakness because they forget where they come from, and other black families might get offended by them 'acting white'.

people assimilate around me all the time. I assimilate all the time. Going to a mainly Hispanic school of course I assimilate, I'm white but I do listen to music and talk different than I ever did growing up because I wasn't exposed to it. If people didn't assimilate there would be so much controversy and the minorities would be overlooked.

 Eric Lou's views on assimilation are pretty similar to mine, he wants to able to live equally and continue to have his own heritage but he does find himself assimilating just like everyone else, he knows that if you are a minority in any group of people that it will be hard and that you will feel out of place but you do tend to fit in eventually.