assimilate into

assimilate (oneself/someone/something) into

To blend into; to merge with. Can you please help assimilate our new student into the class? I've assimilated your suggestions into the existing curriculum. Do you think Sam will be able to assimilate himself into the group? He can be pretty standoffish.
See also: assimilate, someone
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

assimilate someone or something into something

to cause someone or something to be absorbed into something. (As when a person or thing joins a group.) We sought to assimilate Arnold into the community. The manager had to assimilate the new policies into the list of current ones. They assimilated themselves into the general population.
See also: assimilate
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • assimilate
  • assimilate (oneself/someone/something) into
  • integrate
  • integrate (someone) with (something)
  • integrate with
  • assimilate with
  • assimilate with some people
  • accommodate (oneself) to (something)
  • accommodate oneself to
  • blend together
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Mark Scanlon-Greene opined, "The more LGBT people assimilate into the dominant culture, the less use there will be for drag queens, gay bars, and all the other accoutrements that came with gay liberation.
She points out that multiculturalism can be a conversation about how different cultures become one, or how people do or don't assimilate into the dominant culture in the classroom.
In Barrios to Burbs: The Making of the Mexican American Middle Class, she highlights how Mexican Americans from a range of class backgrounds are remaking the middle class--and she highlights the challenges facing high-achieving Mexican Americans as they retain lies to poorer family members or assimilate into white America.
I think Catholics can help them assimilate into the culture with discretion.
The Emerging Leaders Committee will assimilate into the NYC Chapter and target the same goals set by the Chapter board of directors with regard to membership, learning and visibility.
In these enclaves, they retain many aspects of Mexican culture and assimilate into American society at a slower rate than previous ethnic groups did; Mexican-Americans have been relatively slow to become citizens, and their children continue to underperform academically.
Yancey contends that many individuals, namely Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans, will likely be able to assimilate into the dominant culture and even be counted as white in the years to come, whereas African Americans will continue to experience a degree of alienation unmatched by other racial groups that reinforces their separation.
For those who are only Faintly aware of this world, it may be a little difficult to assimilate into the culture at first, but soon the threads of the story entangle the listener.
In addition to growing his company, Daniel founded AIMES (Assimilate Into Mainstream Society Economically), an urban youth mentoring program created to help young people identify with the American dream.
The psychoanalytic overtones (Lacanian Slavoj Zizek is a shadow figure here) imply the desire, particularly in Eastern Europe, to assimilate into the new European community but also the fear of losing national identity in the process.
It was developed to assimilate into mid to high-end computer systems and connect to the host platform through a single device.
This world, Boyarin continues, existed until the late nineteenth century when Jews began to assimilate into Western society, a culture in which manliness was defined by "physical strength, martial activity and aggressiveness, and contempt for and fear of the female body." (p.
Surrealism or sur-realite ('superior reality') became a powerful means of revealing the unconscious, as practiced in Freudian psychoanalysis, of the colonized, who had suppressed their identification with Africa to assimilate into Frenchness.
A section on Latino popular Catholicism asked whether the Latino Catholic community will assimilate into American culture, as European Catholic immigrants did, or maintain itself as a distinct group.
One of the most pertinent issues that minority groups face is whether and how much they should assimilate into the majority.