They learn how to deal with societal institutions. Minorities gradually follow patterns, norms, and values of American culture. They are still not invited to the country clubs and banquets though forced assimilation, the minority adjusts to the majority. Assimilation involves ethnicity, not race. Minority groups are accepted into the culture.
Minority forges secondary and primary relationships with the majority group.
They become active participants in societal institutions. Immigrants become Anglo-conformed to easily assimilate into the majority. Their poverty rate and teen pregnancy rate has dropped, while the median income and life expectancy has increased. Life expectancy, although it has risen, is still not close to the average white American. Life expectancy for inner city African Americans is 53.8 years, the same as a man from Bangladesh.