In what ways is it possible for someone to absorb another person's culture?

Cultural assimilation, or 'absorption for short (but that word also has other meanings), is an intense process of consistent integration when members of an ethno-cultural group, typically immigrants, or other minority groups, are "absorbed" into an established, generally larger community, with the intent to change one

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by 1880, germany had more rail lines than great britain and russia.