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[226] From Matthew G. Lewis, _Journal of a West India Proprietor_, pp.
60-337. (John Murray, 1834.)

[227] From "Modern Theories of Caste: Mr. Nesfield's Theory," Appendix
V, in Sir Herbert Risley, _The People of India_, pp. 407-8. (W. Thacker
& Co., 1915.)

[228] From Sir Herbert Risley, _The People of India_, pp. 130-39. (W.
Thacker & Co., 1915.)

[229] From Hugo Muensterberg, _Psychology, General and Applied_, pp.
259-64, (D. Appleton & Co., 1914.)

[230] Adapted from _Domestic Service_, by An Old Servant, pp. 10-110.
(Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917.)

[231] Adapted from a translation of Georg Simmel by Albion W. Small,
"Superiority and Subordination," in the _American Journal of Sociology_,
II (1896-97), 169-71.

[232] Adapted from a translation of Georg Simmel by Albion W. Small,
"Superiority and Subordination," in the _American Journal of Sociology_,
II (1896-97), 172-86.

[233] Adapted from a translation of Georg Simmel by Albion W. Small,
"The Sociology of Conflict," in the _American Journal of Sociology_, IX
(1903-4), 799-802.

[234] Adapted from a translation of Georg Simmel by Albion W. Small,
"The Sociology of Conflict," in the _American Journal of Sociology_, IX
(1903-4), 804-6.

[235] Adapted from Charles H. Cooley, "Personal Competition," in
_Economic Studies_, IV (1899), No. 2, 78-86.

[236] From Robert E. Park, "The City," in the _American Journal of
Sociology_, XX (1915), 584-86.

[237] Translated and adapted from Emile Durkheim, _La division du
travail social_, pp. 24-209. (Felix Alcan, 1902.)

[238] _Pure Sociology_, p. 16.

[239] _Mental Development in the Child and the Race_, p. 23.

[240] _Supra_, pp. 218-19.

CHAPTER XI

ASSIMILATION

I. INTRODUCTION

1. Popular Conceptions of Assimilation

The concept assimilation, so far as it has been defined in popular
usage, gets its meaning from its relation to the problem of immigration.
The more concrete and familiar terms are the abstract noun
Americanization and the verbs Americanize, Anglicize, Germanize, and the
like. All of these words are intended to describe the process by which
the culture of a community or a country is transmitted to an adopted
citizen. Negatively, assimilation is a process of denationalization, and
this is, in fact, the form it has taken in Europe.

The difference between Europe and America, in relatio