Ethnic Integration

Ethnic integration is the entire set of social processes by which individuals of different ethnic collectivities continually interact. This results in changes to the cultural content, structural form and ethnic identity of the participants. There are four forms of ethnic integration: the Melting Pot, the Mosaic, the Dominant Conformity, and the Paternalism Model. There are also several levels of ethnic integration; these range from the necessary adoption of society-wide attributes and the participation in secondary institutions, to the adoption of different cultural attributes and the participation in the private sphere of the primary institutions.