RUTH Will somebody please tell me what assimila-who ever means! GEORGE Oh, it’s just a college girl’s way of calling people Uncle Toms—but that isn’t what it means at all. RUTH Well, what does it mean? BENEATHA (Cutting GEORGE off and staring at him as she replies to RUTH) It means someone who is willing to give up his own culture and submerge himself completely in the dominant, and in this case oppressive culture!
