Forced assimilation  

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Forced assimilation is a process of cultural assimilation of religious or ethnic minority groups that is forced into an established and generally larger community. Also enforcement of a new language in legislation, education, literature, worshiping counts as forced assimilation. Unlike ethnic cleansing, the local population is not forced to leave a certain area. Instead the population becomes assimilated by force. It has often been used after an area has changed nationality, often in the aftermath of war. Some examples are both the German and French forced assimilation in the provinces Alsace and (at least a part of) Lorraine, and some decades after the Swedish conquests of the Danish provinces Scania, Blekinge and Halland the local population was submitted to forced assimilation.

See also

• Acculturation
• Affirmative action in China
• Assimilation (phonology)
• Cultural appropriation
• Cultural assimilation of Native Americans
• Cultural imperialism
• Diaspora politics
• Ethnic interest group
• Ethnocide
• Forced conversion
• Hegemony
• Human rights in China
• Intercultural competence
• Language shift
• Language death
• Mexicans in Omaha, Nebraska
• "More Irish than the Irish themselves"
• Nationalism
• Patriotism
• Stolen Generations
• Umvolkung