assimilationist
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
assimilation + -ist
Noun[edit]
assimilationist (plural assimilationists)
- (sociology) An advocate of the policy or practice of the assimilation of immigrant or other minority cultures into a mainstream culture.
- Spanish-language education is not favored by assimilationist parents of Latino children in the US.
- 1998, Norman Linzer, David J. Schnall, Jerome A. Chanes, A Portrait of the American Jewish Community, page xii:
- To the assimilationists, American Jews have not merely acculturated — they have assimilated.
- 1999, Christian Joppke, Immigration and the Nation-State: The United States, Germany, and Great Britain[1], page 147:
- The conflict between melting-pot assimilationists and cultural pluralists betrays a fundamental uncertainty about the meaning of American nationhood, and about the role ethnicity plays in it.
- 2000, Bruce F. Pauley, From Prejudice to Persecution: A History of Austrian Anti-Semitism[2], page 224:
- The one area where there was at least some agreement between assimilationists and Zionists was Palestine.
Synonyms[edit]
- (sociology): integrationist
Translations[edit]
an advocate of the assimilation into a mainstream culture
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Adjective[edit]
assimilationist (comparative more assimilationist, superlative most assimilationist)
- (sociology) Of or pertaining to assimilationism; promoting or advocating assimilationism.
- 2000, Katherine Palmer Kaup, Creating the Zhuang: Ethnic Politics in China[3], page 62:
- Shortly after Chiang Kaishek came to power, however, the GMD[Guomindang] once again withdrew its support for self-determination and pursued a more assimilationist strategy.
- 2011, Peter Scholten, Framing Immigrant Integration: Dutch Research-Policy Dialogues in Comparative Perspective[4], page 187:
- SCP[Social and Cultural Planning Office of the Netherlands] was also more explicitly involved in advocating a more assimilationist approach in this period.
- 2012, Robert Consedine, Joana Consedine, Healing Our History, page 22:
- Although there have been many attempts throughout history by the state to assist Maori, many government policies have been paternalistic and assimilationist in nature.
- 2015, Michael Goebel, Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism[5], page 224:
- To an extent, reformers – such as the Vietnamese and Tunisian constitutionalists or the Antilleans and Malagasies of the LFADCIM[French League for the Attainment of the Rights of Citizens of the Natives of Madagascar] – were more assimilationist than radicals in the sense that they demanded an extension of French citizenship rights and of naturalization.
Synonyms[edit]
- (sociology): integrationist
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