Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not assimilated.
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- adjective Not
assimilated .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Fifty years after the Brown decision, blacks remain unassimilated.
Think Progress » Ann Coulter to MoveOn: “How About Helping Out?” 2005
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The best one I've received so far: fronchi, what folks in El Paso call unassimilated Mexicans.
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We have always relied on low-wage immigrant labor but rejected their social difference (their language, culture, appearance, "unassimilated" ways).
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We have always relied on low-wage immigrant labor but rejected their social difference (their language, culture, appearance, "unassimilated" ways).
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We have always relied on low-wage immigrant labor but rejected their social difference (their language, culture, appearance, "unassimilated" ways).
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And in 1930 a director of the West Side Community Center remarked that the two largest unassimilated immigrant groups were the most willing to cross the American color line: the Jew and the Italian seem to be the only people who will live in the same house with the Negroes.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Women smoking and drinking in public, which had been the exclusive practice of prostitutes and unassimilated German immigrants, “were becoming fashionable for married women of the upper class and were making headway at other class levels.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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A sociologist working for Columbia University in 1904 studied a section of the Lower East Side of New York City inhabited by unassimilated immigrants and African Americans, and found that the defining element of its culture was disreputable dancing:
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Look to internal strife, millions of unassimilated people from the third world being told that the welfare cheque is ending.
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Negative population growth plus unassimilated folks with shall we say tribal customs equals a lot of grief.
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