Unfortunately, their community is attacked and Lauren is left familyless and homeless, forcing her to survive in the external chaos she predicted and leaving her to try to heal society alone and with the help of a few others. Even at first Lauren had very little faith in the religion practiced in her home. Although her father was a minister and preacher, Lauren did not follow the same religion as him. In fact, Lauren created her own religion called Earthseed. With these actions, cultural change is demonstrated as a change in religion is occurring across generations. Religion is usually part of one's culture, when Lauren creates her own religion to follow, she is shedding the last remaining pieces of her torn culture and emerging into a new culture of her own. After the attack on her community, Lauren decides to lead a new group of revolutionaries who assimilate into her new culture in hopes of restoring a better world. Assimilation is known as the transformation of a subordinate culture into a dominant one (Haviland et al. 2014, 358). In this case, Lauren's new culture and religion is the dominant culture for the people who are integrating her mission. For them there was no established culture that made them a subordinate group. As his group migrates north to try to restore a civilized society, new traditions and ideas continue to emerge and thus change the old structure. For example, in the old society it was known that men were leaders of groups and ultimately they were in charge. However, as Lauren began to create her own culture, the shift in power passed to her, symbolizing the feminist power she created. The adoption of his religion also symbolizes a change in culture. Those who joined her had to assimilate her growing ideas and follow her in hopes of survival. All these events led to the beginning of a new society