assimilationist
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At the heart of the discussion, she said, is whether Quebec sees itself "as a multicultural society" or one that is more "assimilationist".
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2026
The essence of our assimilationist mindset is seen in “outreach,” “interfaith” programs and pleas to entertainment and journalism to “change the narrative.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
Roberto José Andrade Franco retells the saga of Oscar De La Hoya versus Julio Cesar Chávez, landing less on the side of the former than pointing out the assimilationist façade of the Golden Boy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2025
Such communes, which rejected both straight society and a gay movement that they saw as consumerist and assimilationist, peppered late 1970s and early 1980s America.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
The truth was that in those days Desdemona was struggling against assimilationist pressures she couldn’t resist.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Its sister document, El Plan de Santa Barbara, warned activists that they “must be able to relate to all segments of the Barrio, from the middle-class assimilationists to the vatos locos.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025
The assimilationists feel constricted by their minority identity.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2021
Its internal debates between assimilationists and revolutionaries anticipated rifts within the black power and decolonization movements that roiled the late-1960s; James Earl Jones starred in the 1970 premiere.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2020
In “Stamped from the Beginning,” Kendi divided the racists into two kinds, segregationists and assimilationists.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2019
Fresh Off the Boat began by embracing both the assimilationists and the holdouts among the Asian diaspora—there wasn’t a wrong way to be an immigrant.
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2018
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