With increased migration in today’s world, people of different cultural backgrounds are mixed into mainstream and western culture. According to World Psychiatry, assimilation as a result of migration causes individuals to lose their cultural identity to “adapt to the majority or host culture and value system.” Besides causing the death of thousands of cultures, it has several negative impacts on individuals:
- Changing social affiliations
- Rejection of culture
- Alienation
- Deculturalization
- Internalized racism
- Decreased self-esteem
