- Assimilation is when a groups of minorities take the customs, behaviors and guidance of an affluent culture. Multiculturalism actually promotes other cultural influences instead of just one. There are policies of integration and programs for mixed societies to encourage survival and prosperity as the goal. A society can suddenly embrace an alternate society that is more established and wealthier societies coercively incorporate other societies that may seem weak or controllable. Immigrants are turning out to be more like others lately in standards, values, practices, and other
