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**tLO0hFNy** · 07-11-2012, 09:04 PM

Those two statements illustrate the difference between INTEGRATION and ASSIMILATION - integration is about maintaining good relations and contributing positively whilst staying true to one's own moral and religious conscience. But assimilation is a totally different matter - it is the process by which Muslims lose their religious and moral compass and literally and adopt prevalent or apparently dominant cultural practises of a society such as the ''pub culture''.

Assimilation means you try and copy the behaviour of others but integration is more about giving something to society whilst staying true to your religious and moral sentiments.

the second one is cultural assimilation

What worries me is that a lot of the politicians and journalists who talk about the need for integration obviously don't really mean integratation when they say it - they mean assimilation.

07-11-2012, 09:04 PM	#35
tLO0hFNy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 511 Senior Member	Those two statements illustrate the difference between INTEGRATION and ASSIMILATION - integration is about maintaining good relations and contributing positively whilst staying true to one's own moral and religious conscience. But assimilation is a totally different matter - it is the process by which Muslims lose their religious and moral compass and literally and adopt prevalent or apparently dominant cultural practises of a society such as the ''pub culture''. Assimilation means you try and copy the behaviour of others but integration is more about giving something to society whilst staying true to your religious and moral sentiments. the second one is cultural assimilation What worries me is that a lot of the politicians and journalists who talk about the need for integration obviously don't really mean integratation when they say it - they mean assimilation.
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