... usually involves a gradual change and takes place in varying degrees; full assimilation occurs when new members of a society become indistinguishable from older members. 3. Find two other examples where other races/cultures have been assimilated? Aboriginal Assimilation Assimilation came about during the post war years in Australia where the Aborigines were expected to live like White Australians do. In 1951 assimilation was adopted as the Commonwealth Government policy. To facilitate the process, all Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory were declared "wards" under the welfare ordinance of 1953, which gave the Government legal rights over their movements, employment, residence, wages and even who they married. A network of government settlements was established to which any wandering "bush" groups were to be removed and where they were to be educated in the ways of mainstream society. By the late 1960's, however, the assimilation policy was increasingly being questioned, mainly because it ...

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