Question

Which strategies did Benjamin Lee and his family use to assimilate?

Answer 1

They stopped speaking Chinese.

They stopped talking about their heritage.

Benjamin did not tell his siblings that he had spent time in china.

Answer 2

The linguistic relatively hypothesis, Edward Sapir and his student Benjamin Lee Whorf advanced the linguistic relatively hypothesis, which argues that language influences our perceptions of the world. This is because we are more likely to be aware of things if we have words for them.