 While this theory identities different stages in an immigration process– contact, conflict, struggle, and as the last and best response, assimilation– it did so only for white ethnic communities.The ethnicity paradigm neglects the ways that race can complicate a community's interactions with basic social and political structures, especially upon contact.And assimilation– shedding the particular qualities of a native culture for the purpose of blending in with a host culture– did not work for some groups as a response to racism and discrimination as it did for others.