Assertion: assimilation | /r/HasProperty | viewed as process
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text: In contrast to the conventional understanding of this concept in which Old Country bonds, customs, and attachments are gradually replaced by mainstream American ways, assimilation is viewed here as a process whereby blended or ethnic—in this case, Jewish-American—identities, life-styles, and patterns of social relations emerge in the interplay between the immigrant group’s traditions and resources and those of the host society as they are adapted and used by the immigrants in pursuit of their goals.