assimilationist
assimilationist noun: an advocate of the policy or practice of the assimilation of immigrant or other minority cultures into a mainstream culture.
Noun
assimilationist (plural assimilationists)
- 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.
- To the assimilationists, American Jews have not merely acculturated — they have assimilated.1998, Norman Linzer, David J. Schnall, Jerome A. Chanes, A Portrait of the American Jewish Community, page xii
Adjective
assimilationist (comparative more assimilationist, superlative most assimilationist)
- Of or pertaining to assimilationism; promoting or advocating assimilationism.
- I wonder: if it had not been for GCN, would I now be the one who settles for the semi-closeted, factionalized world that Bay Windows and its ilk define as Shangri-la? Perhaps. What is certain, however, is that you have never jettisoned concern fror anybody for the sake of popularity and (gulp)...1990 December 9, Ed Fendor, “The Promised Land”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 21, page 4
- 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.2000, Katherine Palmer Kaup, Creating the Zhuang: Ethnic Politics in China, page 62
Examples of assimilationist in a sentence
- 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.1999, Christian Joppke, Immigration and the Nation-State: The United States, Germany, and Great Britain, page 147:
- The one area where there was at least some agreement between assimilationists and Zionists was Palestine.2000, Bruce F. Pauley, From Prejudice to Persecution: A History of Austrian Anti-Semitism, page 224:
- What is certain, however, is that you have never jettisoned concern fror anybody for the sake of popularity and (gulp) assimilationist marketability.1990 December 9, Ed Fendor, “The Promised Land”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 21, page 4:
- SCP^([Social and Cultural Planning Office of the Netherlands]) was also more explicitly involved in advocating a more assimilationist approach in this period.2011, Peter Scholten, Framing Immigrant Integration: Dutch Research-Policy Dialogues in Comparative Perspective, page 187:
Synonyms of assimilationist
Forms of assimilationist
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | assimilationists |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more assimilationist |
| superlative | most assimilationist |
Origin of assimilationist
From assimilation + -ist.
Words formed from assimilationist
Questions about assimilationist
- What does assimilationist mean?
- Assimilationist means an advocate of the policy or practice of the assimilation of immigrant or other minority cultures into a mainstream culture.
- How do you use assimilationist in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is assimilationist?
- Assimilationist can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of assimilationist?
- The plural of assimilationist is assimilationists.
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