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Assimilation in the American Culture: an Analysis of Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (1991)

Noor Saady Essa

Volume: 11 Issue: 1 2021

Abstract:

Cultural assimilation is regarded as the state in which a minority group gradually adjusts to the customs, language, and attitudes of the predominant culture. This paper presents assimilation in the American culture which is reflected in Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (1991). It also shows that assimilation is a major theme in the history of the American culture as an outlet for the emigration from the Dominican Republic to the United States during the 1960s. In addition, it examines the effects of such assimilation upon the internal and external worlds of the immigrants.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v11i01.020

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