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=== North America === [[Atlantic slave trade|Enslaved Africans]] in the 16th to 19th centuries throughout North America,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-08-23 |title=How slavery flourished in the United States in charts and maps |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/how-slavery-flourished-united-states-chart-maps |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=Culture |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Pargas |first=Damian Alan |url=https://archive.org/details/slaveryforcedmig0000parg |title=Slavery and forced migration in the antebellum South |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2014 |pages=133-135 |chapter=Part II Assimilation}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Jackson |first=Brandon |title=From Chains to Freedom: The evolution of slavery in the Yucatan |url=https://historicalmx.org/items/show/211 |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=HistoricalMX |language=en}}</ref> South America,<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Davis |first=Darién J. |url=https://archive.org/details/beyondslaverymul0000unse/page/n1/mode/1up |title=Beyond Slavery: The Multilayered Legacy of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2007 |location=Lanham, Maryland, U.S.}}</ref> and the Caribbean<ref name=":0" /> were forced to abandon their native languages, religions, and cultural practices. [[African diaspora|Many communities]] descending from these groups formed traditions and linguistic dialects<ref>{{Cite web |title=African Diaspora Culture {{!}} Slavery and Remembrance |url=https://slaveryandremembrance.org/articles/article/?id=A0057 |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=slaveryandremembrance.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Price |first=Richard |title=Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas |publisher=Anchor Press |year=1973 |isbn=0385065086 |location=Garden City, New York |pages=25 |oclc=805137}}</ref> that still face discrimination<ref>{{Cite web |last=King |first=Sharese |last2=Kinzler |first2=Katherine D. |date=2020-07-14 |title=Op-Ed: Bias against African American English speakers is a pillar of systemic racism |url=https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-07-14/african-american-english-racism-discrimination-speech |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> and attempts at forced assimilation.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Ernie |title=The real Ebonics debate: Power, language, and the education of African-American children |work= |publisher=Beacon |year=1998 |isbn=0-8070-3145-3 |editor-last=Lisa |editor-first=Delpit |location=Boston |chapter=What is Black English? What is Ebonics? |editor-last2=Perry |editor-first2=Theresa}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Griner |first=Allison |title=The Gullah Geechee’s fight against ‘cultural genocide’ |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2015/9/4/the-gullah-geechees-fight-against-cultural-genocide |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}</ref> ==== United States and Canada ==== {{further information|Cultural assimilation of Native Americans}} In the United States and Canada, forced assimilation had been practiced against indigenous peoples through the [[American Indian boarding schools]] and [[Canadian Indian residential school system]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Little |first1=Becky |title=How Boarding Schools Tried to 'Kill the Indian' Through Assimilation |url=https://www.history.com/news/how-boarding-schools-tried-to-kill-the-indian-through-assimilation |website=History |access-date=11 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Carpenter |first1=Mary |title=Lost Generations |url=https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/first-nations-inuit-metis/lost-generations |website=Canada's History |access-date=11 July 2020}}</ref> The same assimilation was also faced by French and Spanish speaking peoples populating the U.S. and Canada, through language bans, violence, and extreme prejudice by anglophones into and throughout the 20th century.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}} During [[World War I]] and [[World War II]], people of Japanese, German, and Italian descent faced societal and political pressure to stop speaking their native languages and abandon their cultural practices in the United States and Canada, even being interred in concentration camps (See [[Internment of Japanese Americans|Japanese American internment]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Be Good Americans: The Message of The Japanese-American Courier - Great Depression Project |url=https://depts.washington.edu/depress/japanese_american_courier_americanism.shtml |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=depts.washington.edu}}</ref> [[Internment of Japanese Canadians|Japanese Canadian internment]], [[Internment of German Americans|German American internment]],<ref>When German Immigrants Were America’s Undesirables. (2019). Retrieved 10 October 2020, from https://www.history.com/news/anti-german-sentiment-wwi</ref> [[List of concentration and internment camps#German Canadian internment|German Canadian internment]], [[Internment of Italian Americans|Italian American internment]], [[Italian Canadian internment]]).
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