9. What factors promoted and impeded the extension of Roman culture in Gaul?
10. What social factors were involved in the origin of the French language?
11. To what extent does the extension of a cultural language involve assimilation?
12. In what sense do the cultural languages compete with each other?
13. Do you agree with the prediction that within a century English will be the vernacular of a quarter of the people of the world? Justify your position.
14. Does Park's definition of assimilation differ from that of Simons?
15. What do you understand Park to mean when he says, "Social institutions are not founded in similarities any more than they are founded in differences, but in relations, and in the mutual interdependence of the parts"? What is the relation of this principle to the process of assimilation?
16. What do you understand to be the difference between the type of assimilation (a) that makes for group solidarity and corporate action, and (b) that makes for formal like-mindedness? What conditions favor the one or the other type of assimilation?
17. What do you understand by the term "Americanization"?
18. Is there a difference between Americanization and Prussianization?