Assimilation
* assumes that relatively tenuous culture gets to be united to one unified culture.
* begins in the European culture and then spreads to other cultures.
* causes immigrants to abandon their own culture and become part of the larger crowd.
* comes with the passage of time.
* continues to melt ethnic separatism.
* filter, which by definition subtracts.
* form of symbolic violence.
* goes on in the tissues.
* has strong transferency in family ties and influences.
* involves the incorporation of new events into preexisting cognitive structures.
* is an innate behavior caused by migration
  - another example of how languages change phonetically
  - genocide
  - like a nuclear chain reaction
  - more a biological process than a matter of choice
  - relationships
  - social processes
  - takes place only within the vegetative biomass
* is the acquisition and integration of perceptions into mental structures
  - greatest threat to our existence
  - incorporation of individuals or groups into another culture
  - passage of the food molecules into body cells
  - process of including new people into the life and ministry of the church
  - to taking up, making part of and making like oneself
  - total acculturation of a group to the point of lost identity
* means that one of the sounds becomes more like the other one
  - using existing mental frameworks and patterns to understand a new information

Alienation
* also plays a powerful role in misguided patient behavior.
* byproduct of isolation.
* directly affects our state of health mind, body and soul.
* is actions
  - an important cause of the disintegration of societies
  - dislike
  - fundamental to our make-up and is the single greatest cause of human suffering
  - how people understand themselves in relation to their entire society
  - increase by a cultural emphasis on competitive materialism over cooperation
  - increased in societies which have oppressed minorities
  - one of the most influential forces that cause individuals to leave the community
* is the child of cultural invasion-which is born of the underpinning of a culture
  - daily rationed bread
  - normal method of people relating today
  - point where people give up their human, subjective qualities for material needs
  - precursor to persecution
  - result of sin in our lives, and it dominates our existence
  - usual and normal state of middle-class white American adolescents
  - transfers
* more limited term referring to the transfer of income without transfering source.
* occurs when title to a property passes to another party, such as when a property is sold.
* serves a purpose of preserving identity, control, and power.
* tend to increase as interaction between different culture and languages increased.
  * In sociology, alienation more complex and difficult idea. Alienation is how people understand themselves in relation to their entire society. A good example of this is how people think of themselves when they are working and doing a job. Karl Marx wrote about this. This kind of alienation happens when people do work that they are not interested in or find boring. However in almost all societies some people may have to do jobs that they don't like because they need to make money. This can be seen as a type of alienation because a person's true feelings and their actions are separated and unrelated.

Atomic excitation
* can occur in all phases of matter.
* occur through collisions with electrons.

Adenosis
* benign proliferation of the terminal lobule.
* is disorder
  - one cause of diffuse calcifications seen on mammograms