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This question considers why would some women support "Americanization" attempts while others resisted.

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First, many immigrant women resisted Americanization in order to preserve their cultural identities, heritage, and way of life. Many tried to adhere to their religious ideologies, so Americanization was resisted. Research suggests that "assimilation programs were resisted by parents who sought to convey their own cultural systems to their children, and parental beliefs and attitudes are based on gender and rooted in native cultures" (http://edrev.asu.edu/reviews/rev452.htm).

In other words, many resisted because tensions "arose in some settings due to the strong ethnic (cultural) and ...

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