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“Assimilation vs. Accommodation” Assimilation has existed and was practiced since before the United States had even been established. At least it was until the 1600s, when accommodation was recognized to be the best solution for solving cultural and religious conflicts that could have been avoided in the past. In the stories “ The World on the Turtle’s Back” by Iroquois, “La Relacion” by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, and “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano” by Olaudah Equiano the authors describe encounters of both assimilation and accommodation that have affected their dilemmas. In the story “The World on the Turtle’s Back”, the author distinguishes the unpeopled world from the Sky-world and how coincidently the two assim