What is assimilation?

 Some might ask "What is assimilation?" well assimilation is when you get rid of what makes you unique, different and/or special to fit in with the majority norm. For example, you can stop speaking the language you originally spoke and start speaking the language everyone else is speaking just for the very fact that you want to fit in or because you think 'its the norm so why not?' It can also be that you stop wearing your cultural clothes and start wearing "normal" clothing like everyone else. People do this because they want to be accepted and in order to feel accepted they give up the most essential part of themselves, the part that makes them different.   

I think that students should not have to or feel like they have to give up their cultural identity because that's what makes them different and unique and moving to a different environment shouldn't require them to have to change that about themselves. I think different environments should accepted them and not have a problem with them being different the same way New York accepted me for who I am and how i'm different from most people and it didn't require me to change who I am and what langues I spoke I still got to be me, I still got to be a Jamaican girl living in America.  

                                     Assimilation: the process of becoming similar to something