How do i integrate a culture?

[Jor1994]

My Government wants me to integrate another culture and i don't know how to do that

[Rialm]

You go to culture tab, then you change the civic right of the culture that you want to integrate to: Citizen or Noble. Basically you are giving them the right to become in some sort of point as "equal" as your main culture. Be aware that by doing that, you are making your others integrated culture less happy + you cannot assimilate Integrated Cultures.
Advice don't give the others cultures the right to become nobles.

[Jor1994]

Originally posted by Rialm:

You go to culture tab, then you change the civic right of the culture that you want to integrate to: Citizen or Noble. Basically you are giving them the right to become in some sort of point as "equal" as your main culture. Be aware that by doing that, you are making your others integrated culture less happy + you cannot assimilate Integrated Cultures.
Advice don't give the others cultures the right to become nobles.

Is there a reason not to give them noble status?

Should i reserve it for only really high pop count cultures and what's the best way to assimilate the ones i don't integrate? As far as i can see it's just marketplaces and the governor policy.

[Razor Feather]

Originally posted by Jor1994:

Is there a reason not to give them noble status?

Should i reserve it for only really high pop count cultures and what's the best way to assimilate the ones i don't integrate? As far as i can see it's just marketplaces and the governor policy.

Giving noble status to a culture gives a larger happiness penalty to all integrated cultures than giving them citizens status, so you don't want to be too generous with it, especially since you usually need the least nobles so your primary culture can fill in those slots easily enough.

Generally yes you want to only integrate larger cultures, since that gives the most benifit for the happiness penalty you get. You also can get new traditions trees if you integrate a culture of the appropriate group (depends on what trees you already have) that you have at least 500 pops or 1/4 of your total primary culture pop count of, whichever is lower.

The main assimilation tool you are missing is the grand theater, which gives a big buff to culture assimilation in cities where you build it. Roads also help by a few percent per connection going in/out of a given province. Monarchies further have the cultural assimilation law, which is super handy, but it sounds like you are a republic, so you don't have that.

Another thing to note is that having the dominant religion in a territory be different from the state religion, and having the given pop converting be the wrong religion, both give big penalties to assimilation speed, and the reverse is also true for religious conversion. So speeding up one indirectly speeds up the other.