I decided to Dances With Wolves. It came out in 1990 and was directed by Kevin Costner who also starred in it. In the movie he is a Civil War "hero" who gets to chance to see the frontier before it disappears. So he gets sent to an abandoned post in what's supposed to be South Dakota. When there in came in contact with two tribes at different points, the Pawnee and the Lakota. A Lakota, named Kicking Bird, came across him and showed a strong curiosity for John Dunbar (Kevin Costner). Neither seemed threatened by the other, but remained distant. Eventually Lt. Dunbar and the Lakota become unafraid of one another and after a few slightly awkward meetings they formed a strong bond. Lt. Dunbar eventually came to learn to culture and language. He married another "white" Lakota like himself. He participated in cultural events, and even went to battle with them against the Pawnee and the U.S. military.
The concept that going to discuss is assimilation. This is a type of cultural adaptation where an individual drops their culture for the dominant culture (Martin & Nakayama, 2013). I always liked this because this happened in so many cases throughout history for all kinds of tribes. Even though the Lakota weren't the dominant culture in the country, they were however the dominant culture in that area of the country. By the end of the movie he had learned the language completely, changed up his wardrobe, and was ready to live with them and leave his fort. He was mistaken as a Lakota by the U.S. army. The thing about this, there was no pressure on either side to have him assimilate. It was the fact that there was a huge language barrier and when he was learning the language he was learning the culture. With Lakota it is impossible to learn the language and not learn about the culture. They are the same thin
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