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Cultural assimilation
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Cultural assimilation
Assimilation is a very complex issue regarding the importance of culture, its continuation, and stability. Since assimilation helps a culture grow and become better day by day by bringing in more people, it can also be termed to dilute the culture. After all, there is the concept of a person being unable to be assimilated totally. Therefore this still gives a chance to people who have been assimilated to practice their former culture within the new culture they are assimilated into. This comes up as one of the biggest challenges of assimilation, and therefore it is not the best way to sustain and stabilize a people’s culture. Therefore even though it might be considered an option whereby the population of a certain society is diminishing, and there is an urgent need to retain this culture, it remains a notion that is not the best way to deal with the issue of a society’s desire to retain its culture and spread it over a large area. Therefore with this stand, I will discuss the meaning of cultural stability and sustenance, the causes of cultural death, what assimilation is and why it is not the best way, and the results of using assimilation to sustain and retain a society’s culture.
Different societies have existed differently, and they are always evolving in the face of the current changes which take place within them. Societies experience different and varied nature of challenges in everyday life, and these challenges are the ones that determine if the society remains stable or unstable in its course of existence. These challenges also determine if a certain culture dies or remains of great importance to the world and the immediate neighbors. Some of these challenges include the likability of a certain culture due to its appealing nature, the likability of a certain culture’s practices, the forced acceptance of a certain culture like the case with slavery, and some extent colonization, among other factors. Therefore these factors make it possible for a culture to be liked by certain people or disliked. They are also the factors that determine if a certain person will be willing to learn a particular culture freely. Therefore, these play a great role in determining a certain culture’s future (Angelini, 819).
At times cultural death happens when a certain group of people is no longer concerned about their culture, and they go on being assimilated into other cultures which they hold dear. Therefore, assimilation acts as a replacement of the culture even though replacement never happens totally unless over a very long period. In most times, there is always a merge between two cultures and their practices. The causes of cultural death may be the lack of proper channels of transfer of this culture. Therefore, people tend to go towards a more detailed and better way of transferring the culture and where there is a better organization of the culture of a certain people.
Assimilation is defined as a process through which individuals or groups different in ethnic backgrounds are absorbed into a certain society’s dominant culture. Therefore this is the situation whereby the people of a certain group learn about a different culture, and they stick to it. Assimilation has happened before in different societies and continues to happen even today though unconsciously. It is this assimilation that happens which leads to people behaving in a more resembling way to another group of people. Therefore assimilation can be good and can be bad. However, the negative side of it weighs more. This means that assimilation cannot make a society more stable and sustain the life of a certain society. This is because assimilation never makes a person change who they were before; it just makes them embrace the new order of living and the kind of people they are becoming. Therefore, they learn that it is possible to change their lives but never forget who they were.
No one ever forgets who they were yesterday makes it very difficult for assimilation to happens effectively since a person will always remember what they were used to doing in their former life and tend to practice it in the new life they have embraced. This, therefore, makes life difficult to identify and realize what complications come with the assimilation fully. Cultural assimilation in the past was forced most of the time; however, it is voluntary in recent times. Most people tend to take on cultural assimilation due to them getting an education in other parts of the world or their work (Abramitzky, 17).
Therefore it is still difficult for assimilation to be used to retain a society’s culture because even those who used it forcefully, especially during the colonization period, never worked perfectly. This is because people are volatile, culture is very wide, and it is never constant, and it is always changing, people have different tastes, among other factors. Therefore, when a society tries to make others get to their culture, it may be difficult because even though the desire to retain the culture is very much, it may never be retained. Rather it will change into a different culture which will be a combination of a person’s former or original culture and the current culture being forced onto them.
In conclusion, we can say that culture is beautiful, and assimilation is also a good concept. However, its use has been associated with different negative issues, making it impossible to assimilate a person. Therefore that is what proves assimilation a difficult practice that does not always bear the fruits of retaining a society’s culture.
Works cited
“Cultural Assimilation: Meaning and Examples for Better Clarity.” Historyplex, 2 Mar. 2015, historyplex.com/cultural-assimilation-meaning. Accessed 7 Mar. 2021.
Abramitzky, Ran, Leah Platt Boustan, and Katherine Eriksson. Cultural assimilation during the age of mass migration. No. w22381. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2016.
Angelini, Viola, Laura Casi, and Luca Corazzini. “Life satisfaction of immigrants: does cultural assimilation matter?.” Journal of Population Economics 28.3 (2015): 817-844.
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The European Union Emission Trading System also known as European Union’s Emission Trading Scheme is the largest emissions trading scheme set up mainly to curb adverse climatic changes and reduce the global warming rate.
Countries that are more active in the ETS market are the European Union member states and Iceland, Croatia and Norway. The European Union comprises of 27 member states. However the most active countries are the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Belgium, France and Spain.
Since 2006, the EUAs have moved significantly to attain a peak of 30Euros per tonne of Carbon dioxide in April 2006, but in May the same year prices fell to under 10 Euros per tonne, the prices further dwindled to 1.2 Euros in March 2007 and declining to 0 Euros in September the same year. On April 2012, the European Commission initiated the full activation of 30,000 accounts. The current prices of an EUA based on the closing prices of 2012 are 6.67 Euros per tonne (Ellerman, 2010)
The countries that supplied more carbon credits over the period from 2006 to present are Ukraine, Russia and the United Nations.
It has been evidently noted that the EUA prices exceed the CER prices. This is due to the changes in structural relationships and also the different market frameworks used by the two. Other causes of the spread are a lack of market competition and changes in the regulatory system pertaining the EUAs and CERs. The uncertainty that revolves around the CERs also plays a major role as far as the spread is concerned.
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Ellerman, A. D., Convery, F. J., & Perthuis, C. d. (2010). Pricing carbon: the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
Ethylene-Propylene Copolymer
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Ethylene-Propylene Copolymer
This report shows the development of ethylene-propylene Copolymer that is otherwise known as ethylene-propylene rubber (EPM), its classification among other polymers. The report enhances and explains the properties of EPM, their uses and application with a listing of the sources of the EPM and their commercial uses.
In daily life transactions, polymers play important and essential roles because of their wide range of properties. The polymers can be either natural or synthetic that is often composed of a number of repeated subunits that form a large molecule referred to as polymer (Aguilar & Román,2019). Ethylene- propylene rubber that is also referred to as Ethylene- propylene copolymer. With a combination of other chemical compounds and Copolymerizing propylene and ethylene, the process produces a class of synthetic rubber that is called ethylene-propylene rubber The wide range of properties exhibited by the synthetic rubber makes it useful in a number of function, especially in construction, electrical and locomotive engineering. With special and general-purpose application the rubbers copolymers EPM and EPDM elastomers formed as classes of synthetic rubber, they have become a widely used and growing fast form of rubber (Muvundamina et al, 2019)
The major types of copolymers with elastic properties are classified to those that are developed by compounding ethylene and propylene alone and those that are developed by incorporation of small amounts of diene forming the ethylene-propene diene EPDM. Both EPM and EPDM are usually development through compounding in which gaseous ethylene and propylene are dissolved in hexane or other organic solvents before they are subjected to catalyst actions. The rise and demand for specific needs. Copolymerization in contemporary society has seen the development of polymerization and catalyst technologies to enhance the designs and ability of these polymers to achieve the specific demand and processing needs(Aguilar & Román,2019). Through the literature review, previous consumption of the rubber and daily application of this EPM and EPDM. The short project is able to analyses the sources and commercial uses of EPM and EPDM among the effects it upon application. The rubbers are pigmented properly in black as the compounds that are not black are colour stable thus limiting the ageing of the compound. EPM is developed as a polymer that has a saturated backbone structure that is stable making the rubber properties enhance its valuation as it is able to excellently resist heat, ozone, oxidation and weather ageing. Since they are classified as non-polar elastomers they have a good resistance towards electricity and polar solvents that include; water, acids, alkaline and alcohols (Zhang, Shang & Wu,2019). They have low good flexibility in low temperature that allows the glass transition points to be almost at -60 degrees. They also portray a good compression resistance at heat temperatures of up to 160 degrees with the systems of acceleration properly choosing sulfur and peroxide cured compounds.
This polymer develops a high tear and tensile properties with excellent corrosion resistance that sees an improved oil swelling resistance and heat flame retardance. These properties can be found in a single compound, however, rarely. The extent and expansion of the compounds can be achieved through proper compounding of the elements. The electrical properties of EP are excellent with the resilience being good as the stability of the compound is limited to a range of temperature (Shan, Laakso & Garcia-Meitin,2019). The wearing or corrosion resistance of the product is fairly good with the provision of being excellent if the compounds involved are properly compounded. The temperature range supporting its stability where it can be useful are the extremes of between -60 to 160 degrees. The compression ability ranges from 20 to 60 per cent with its elongation ability being 100 to 600 per cent. They, however, have disadvantages as residue carbon-carbon bonds are quite reactive in that when adds up in the atmosphere as ozone they form an unstable product that usually decomposes spontaneously. The main chain of natural rubber and regular diene polymers are often a double bond that essentially means that once a double bond is attacked, the entire molecule is broken (Zhang, Shang & Wu,2019). The double bonds in the molecules, however, are less susceptible to degradation by either sunlight or weathering.
The commercial applications of ethylene-propylene rubber are often used in automotive, HVAC, Roofing, Industrial systems(Kleunen, Brumer, Gutbrod & Zhang,2019). In HVAC it applications is used in the compression of grommets, shaping formed drain tubes, tubing of pressure switches as in automotive its commercial application lies in the wire and cable harnessing, filling window spacers, involved in hydraulic brake systems and sealing doors, windows and trunks. In roofing the EPM is used to coat the roofs to avoid corrosion as in the industrial usage it is applied in water systems especially the O-rings and horses as well as insulating electrical wires and stinger covers. The sources of ethylene-propylene rubber are often natural rubber and synthetic rubbers that are compounded with other subunits to form the big molecule (Kleunen, Brumer, Gutbrod & Zhang,2019)
References
Aguilar, M. R., & San Román, J. (Eds.). (2019). Smart polymers and their applications. Woodhead publishing.
Muvundamina, M. J., Robe, G. R., Williams, T., Hagood, A. G., Sood, D. S., Somers, M. S., … & Cottle, R. P. (2019). U.S. Patent Application No. 10/308,740.
Zhang, S., Zhang, W. C., Shang, D. D., & Wu, Y. X. (2019). Synthesis of ultra‐high‐molecular‐weight ethylene‐propylene copolymer via quasi‐living copolymerization with N‐heterocyclic carbene ligated vanadium complexes. Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 57(4), 553-561.
Shan, C. L. P., Laakso Jr, R. L., & Garcia-Meitin, E. I. (2019). U.S. Patent No. 10,308,796. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
van Kleunen, M., Brumer, A., Gutbrod, L., & Zhang, Z. (2019). A microplastic used as infill material in artificial sports turfs reduces plant growth. Plants, People, Planet.