American Literature
specifically, a process of cultural adaptation by the subordinate people toward the dominant people's culture within the context of social
advancement in American society at that time. The latter indicates the disappearance of group identity through nondifferential association and
exogamy, which requires a mutual effort of both dominant and ethnic groups. Cooper was keenly aware that, to his contemporaries, that was
something to be wished for but entirely nonfeasible. His perception of the encounters between the European colonizers and their colonized natives
convinced him that the acculturation occurring during the process of the Western overseas expansion was basically a confrontation between two
different racial and cultural identities, or rather a unidirectional imposition upon the "host" but conquered society. Disgusted with attempts to justify
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