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- noun An advocate of the policy or practice of the assimilation of immigrant or other minority cultures into a
mainstream culture.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Look at the furor caused by radio host Neal Boortz last year when he made comments about former Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who chose not to wear an acceptable, in his eyes, 'assimilationist' hair style.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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Elections to the City Council saw "assimilationist" incumbent Hispanic council members ousted by La Raza supporting radical challengers.
The TexasFred Blog 2010
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Elections to the City Council saw "assimilationist" incumbent Hispanic council members ousted by La Raza supporting radical challengers.
Recent Activity 2010
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Elections to the City Council saw "assimilationist" incumbent Hispanic council members ousted by La Raza supporting radical challengers.
No Illegal Alien Pilot Left Behind - Michelle Malkin - Townhall Conservative 2010
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Elections to the City Council saw "assimilationist" incumbent Hispanic council members ousted by La Raza supporting radical challengers.
Recent Activity 2010
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Virtually repeating the words of Martin Luther King Jr. and other assimilationist leaders of the civil rights movement, the Janus Society urged “all homosexuals to adopt a behavior code which would be beyond criticism and which would eliminate many of the barriers to integration with the heterosexual world.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Most damaging of all to the assimilationist cause was the continued association of Jews with primitive sexuality.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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King recognized that black sexuality posed a special threat to his assimilationist project.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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This assimilationist campaign gained desperate urgency in the early 1920s, when Congress began curbing the immigration of “undesirable” groups.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Despite the efforts of assimilationist Jews to convince themselves and the nation that they were one with white America, anti-Semitism actually escalated during the 1910s and 1920s.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
vanishedone commented on the word assimilationist
Spiked: 'Leon points out that when bourgeois national movements were flourishing, Jews tended to subscribe to an assimilationist outlook; because capitalism was relatively stable then, and thus anti-Semitism tended to be quite rare, they saw their place as being within already-existing societies rather than being nationally separate from them.'
January 20, 2009