The types of national assimilation can be divided into

The types of national assimilation can be divided into cultural assimilation and immigrant assimilation.

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The phenomenon that a nation or a part of it loses its own characteristics and becomes another nation. This is a historical phenomenon, which has existed in all stages of social development since the birth of the country. National assimilation can be divided into natural assimilation and forced assimilation. Natural assimilation refers to assimilation without human intervention. Whether forced assimilation comes from natural factors or human intervention leads to assimilation. Its essence is neither good nor bad.

Natural assimilation:

Generally speaking, when communicating with the more advanced nationalities, the relatively backward nationalities will naturally absorb the culture of the advanced nationalities, gradually change, and finally completely lose their national characteristics and become other nationalities. The whole process is a voluntary and natural evolution, without resorting to violence, privilege and any coercive means.

However, there are also struggles in the process of assimilation. There are often a few people in the assimilated nation, especially those in power in the ruling class, who try to stop the assimilation trend by administrative orders, but the result is always overwhelming. Because natural assimilation is an inevitable trend of historical development, and it is independent of human will.

Many countries in the world and China have experienced natural assimilation in history. During the period of 189 1- 1909, the United States of America moved in more than10 million immigrants from Europe, including Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland and Russia.

These immigrants from different nationalities gradually assimilated and formed the American nation. Lenin once vividly compared new york to a big mill that crushed racial differences. During the development of Russian capitalism, hundreds of thousands of Russian farmers and workers were attracted to ethnic areas in Ukraine, and many people were assimilated by the Ukrainian nation.

In the history of China, many ethnic minorities, such as the Huns and some Xianbei, gradually accepted the culture of the Han nationality and finally lost their own characteristics after entering the Central Plains, influenced by the advanced mode of production of the Han nationality. This natural assimilation has made great historical progress.