Word: assimilationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"A lot of people who left the reservation in my parents generation, left at a time when assimilation was what was sought and strove for. Education meant you could be like a white man. Young people now are brought up proud of their heritage and not punished and spanked in...
You listen to two hours of speeches Saturday afternoon, and you wonder if the rally isn't going on just a little too long. But when it's over, you have the sense that somehow, this demonstration was a little different, just a little better than you'd bargained for...
You say that "in nine cases out of ten, the newcomers learned English, rather than French, as their new working language." I would like to add that one reason for this "English assimilation" is that prior to the '60s, immigrants were not welcome in the French educational system for...
As one of the "50 million immigrants" who came to master English through the "oldfashioned assimilation policy," I can say that cultural shock is an inevitable reality for any individual entering a foreign country. Bilingual education soothes this shock by enabling the newly arrived immigrant to welcome the new by...
Further, it has been shown that the SATs have little or no correlation with the future academic or professional success of minority students. How could SATs possibly test the verbal capabilities of a Third World student, when many of the words used in the test do not exist in his...