Question

The ethnicity shared by the majority of mexicans is the result of a gradual merging of generations of spaniards and indigenous peoples. this is an example of

Answer 1

The ethnicity shared by the majority of Mexicans is the result of a gradual merging of generations of Spaniards and indigenous peoples. This is an example of assimilation.

Answer 2

One name that you could give to it is "assimilation".

Assimilation is when some individuals loose their previous traits and are taking more and more the traits of the group. In here, the indigenous people assimilated culturally and linguistically into the Spanish group, although the result is a mixed culture with some elements of the indigenous cultures.